Christian origins and greco-roman culture : : social and literary contexts for the New Testament / / edited by Stanley E. Porter, Andrew W. Pitts.

• TeilnehmendeR: Porter, Stanley E., 1956-; Pitts, Andrew W.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 9.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (763 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

In Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture , Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Hellenistic culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Greco-Roman texts.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- Greco-Roman Culture in the History of New Testament Interpretation: An Introductory Essay / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- Manuscripts, Scribes, and Book Production within Early Christianity / Michael J. Kruger -- What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Reconstructing Early Christianity from Its Manuscripts / Stanley E. Porter -- Recent Efforts to Reconstruct Early Christianity on the Basis of Its Papyrological Evidence / Stanley E. Porter -- Jesus and Parallel Jewish and Greco-Roman Figures / Craig S. Keener -- The Exorcisms and Healings of Jesus within Classical Culture / Tony Costa -- Cash and Release: Atonement and Release from Oppression in the Imperial Context of Luke’s Gospel / Matthew Forrest Lowe -- Luke and Juvenal at the Crossroads: Space, Movement, and Morality in the Roman Empire / Osman Umurhan and Todd Penner -- Jesus, the Beloved Disciple, and Greco-Roman Friendship Conventions / Ronald F. Hock -- The Imitation of the “Great Man” in Antiquity: Paul’s Inversion of a Cultural Icon / James R. Harrison -- Ephesians: Paul’s Political Theology in Greco-Roman Political Context / Fredrick J. Long -- Exiles, Islands, and the Identity and Perspective of John in Revelation / Brian Mark Rapske -- Source Citation in Greek Historiography and in Luke(-Acts) / Andrew W. Pitts -- On Sources and Speeches: Methodological Discussions in Ancient Prose Works and Luke-Acts / Sean A. Adams -- Luke as a Hellenistic Historian / Paul L. Maier -- The Genre of the Fourth Gospel and Greco-Roman Literary Conventions / Andreas J. Köstenberger -- Classical Greek Poetry and the Acts of the Apostles: Imitations of Euripides’ Bacchae / Dennis R. MacDonald -- Pauline Prescripts and Greco-Roman Epistolary Conventions / E. Randolph Richards -- Letter Openings in Paul and Plato / James Starr -- Progymnasmatic Love / R. Dean Anderson -- “This Is a Great Metaphor!” Reciprocity in the Ephesians Household Code / Cynthia Long Westfall -- Turning Κεφαλή on Its Head: The Rhetoric of Reversal in Ephesians 5:21–33 / Michelle Lee-Barnewell -- Frank Speech at Work in Hebrews / Benjamin Fiore -- How Greek was the Author of “Hebrews”? A Study of the Author’s Location in Regard to Greek παιδεία / David A. deSilva -- The Didache as a Christian Enchiridion / William Varner -- The Classroom in the Text: Exegetical Practices in Justin and Galen / H. Gregory Snyder -- Index of Modern Authors / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- Index of Ancient Sources / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts.