Light from the Gentiles : : Hellenistic philosophy and early Christianity : collected essays, 1959-2012 / / by Abraham J. Malherbe ; edited by Carl R. Holladay, John T. Fitzgerald, James W. Thompson, Gregory E. Sterling.

• Author: Malherbe, Abraham J.
• Place / Publishing House: Boston : : Brill,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 150.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (1153 pages)
• Notes: "Volume 1 / 2."

Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the “background” against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse intellectual traditions that interacted within specific social contexts. These essays, spanning over fifty years, illustrate Malherbe’s appreciation of the complexities of this ecology and what is required to explore philological and conceptual connections between early Christian writers, especially Paul and Athenagoras, and their literary counterparts who participated in the religious and philosophical discourse of the wider culture. Malherbe’s essays laid the groundwork for his magisterial commentary on the Thessalonian correspondence and launched the contemporary study of Hellenistic moral philosophy and early Christianity.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 1 The Corinthian Contribution / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 2 The Task and Method of Exegesis / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 3 The Beasts at Ephesus / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 4 “Gentle as a Nurse”: The Cynic Background to 1 Thessalonians 2 / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 5 The Inhospitality of Diotrephes / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 6 Social Level and Literary Culture of Early Christianity / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 7 ΜΗ ΓΕΝΟΙΤΟ in the Diatribe and Paul / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 8 Medical Imagery in the Pastoral Epistles / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 9 Antisthenes and Odysseus, and Paul at War / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 10 Exhortation in First Thessalonians / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 11 “In Season and Out of Season”: 2 Timothy 4:2 / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 12 Paul: Hellenistic Philosopher or Christian Pastor? / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 13 “Not in a Corner”: Early Christian Apologetic in Acts 26:26 / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 14 “Pastoral Care” in the Thessalonian Church / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 15 Did the Thessalonians Write to Paul? / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 16 Traditions and Theology of Care in the New Testament / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 17 Paulus Senex / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 18 Determinism and Free Will in Paul: The Argument of 1 Corinthians 8 and 9 / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 19 God’s New Family at Thessalonica / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 20 Paul’s Self-Sufficiency (Philippians 4:11) / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 21 The Christianization of a Topos (Luke 12:13–34) / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 22 Conversion to Paul’s Gospel / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 23 Anti-Epicurean Rhetoric in 1 Thessalonians / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson -- 24 The Apostle Paul as a Pastor / Carl R. Holladay , John T. Fitzgerald , Gregory E. Sterling and James W. Thompson.