Educating early Christians through the rhetoric of hell
Subtitle: "weeping and gnashing of teeth" as paideia in Matthew and the early church
By: Meghan Henning
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 382; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 382.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 294
ISBN-13: 9783161529634
Subjects: Undervisning; Helvetet; Rhetorik; Literatur; Paideia; Christianity; Bibel; Bibeln; Christliche Erziehung; Church history; History of doctrines; Fornkyrkan; Kristendom; Retorik; Historia; Religiösa aspekter; Future life; Unterwelt; Hölle; Education; Frühchristentum
Description: Meghan Henning explores the rhetorical function of the early Christian concept of hell, drawing connections to Greek and Roman systems of education, and examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greek and Latin literature, the New Testament, early Christian apocalypses and patristic authors.
Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Emory University, 2013 under title: Weeping and gnashing of teeth : the pedagogical function of hell in Matthew and the early church.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: The history of hellish rhetoric; title: Death, judgment, and the abode of the dead as malleable rhetorical tools in the Hebrew Bible; title: Learning from the dead : Hades as an expression of paideia in Greek and Latin literature; title: Periēgēsis? : the journey through the places of the dead in Jewish apocalyptic literature; title: A choice between two ways : the rhetoric of eternal punishment in the New Testament; title: The pedagogical role of eschatological judgment, eternal punishment, and the afterlife in Matthew; title: The pedagogical function of hell in the early Christian apocalypses and the early church; title: Conclusion : the landscape of hell and the cultivation of early Christianity.