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...

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.