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 cur...

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.