Paul's anthropology in context : : the image of God, assimilation to God, and tripartite man in ancient Judaism, ancient philosophy and early Christianity / / George H. van Kooten.

Hauptbeschreibung George H. van Kooten offers a radical contextualization of Paul's view of man within the Graeco-Roman discourse of his day. On the one hand, important anthropological terminology such as ""image of God"" and ""spirit"" derives from the J...

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Superior document:Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament - Band 232 ; v.232.
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Place / Publishing House:Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2008.
Year of Publication:2008
Edition:1. Aufl.
Language:English
Series:Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 232.
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament.
Physical Description:1 online resource (469 pages)
Notes:Expanded version of a collection of essays published elsewhere previously between 2005 and 2008, plus one new essay published here for the first time.
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Table of Contents:
  • The 'image of God' in ancient Judaism
  • 'The image of God' and 'being made like God' in Graeco-Roman paganism
  • Philo's anti-Sophistic interpretation of the narratives of Moses' Pentateuch
  • Paul versus the Sophistys : outward performance and rhetorical competition within the Christian community at Corinth
  • The two types of man in Philo and Paul : the anthropological trichotomy of spirit, soul, and body
  • Paul's anti-Sophistic interpretation of the narrative of Moses' shining face (Exod 34) in 2 Cor 3 : Moses' strength, well-being and (transitory) glory, according to Philo, Josephus, Paul, and the Corinthian Sophists
  • The renewal of the 'discredited mind' through metamorphosis : Paul's universalist anthropology in Romans.