Pauline churches and Diaspora Jews
By: John M.G. Barclay
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 275
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 454
ISBN-13: 9783161506192; 9780802873743
Subjects: Jewish diaspora; Pauline churches; Jews; Diaspora; History; Ethnic relations; Frühchristentum
Description: For the past twenty years, John Barclay has researched and written on the social history of early Christianity and the life of Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora. In this collection of nineteen noteworthy essays, he examines points of comparison between the early churches and the Diaspora synagogues in the urban Roman world of the first century. With an eye to such matters as food, family, money, circumcision, Spirit, age, and death, Barclay examines key Pauline texts, the writings of Josephus, and other sources, investigating the construction of early Christian identity and comparing the experience of Paul's churches with that of Diaspora Jewish communities scattered throughout the Roman Empire. -- Amazon.com
Notes: Collection of texts partly published previously.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Pauline churches, Jewish communities and the Roman Empire : introducing the issues; title: "Do we undermine the law?" A study of Romans 14.1-15.6; title: Paul and Philo on circumcision : Romans 2.25-29 in social and cultural context; title: Matching theory and practice : Josephus' constitutional ideal and Paul's strategy in Corinth; title: Money and meetings : group formation among diaspora Jews and early Christians; title: Deviance and apostasy : some applications of deviance theory to first-century Judaism and Christianity; title: Who was considered an apostate in the Jewish diaspora?; title: Hostility to Jews as cultural construct : Egyptian, Hellenistic, and early Christian paradigms; title: Thessalonica and Corinth : social contrasts in Pauline Christianity; title: [Pneumatikos] in the social dialect of Pauline Christianity; title: "That you may not grieve, like the rest who have no hope" (1 Thess 4.13) : death and early Christian identity; title: Ordinary but different : Colossians and hidden moral identity; title: There is neither old nor young? Early Christianity and ancient ideologies of age; title: The politics of contempt : Judaeans and Egyptians in Josephus' Against Apion; title: The empire writes back : Josephan rhetoric in Flavian Rome; title: Who's the toughest of them all? Jews, Spartans and Roman torturers in Josephus' Against Apion; title: Snarling sweetly : a study of Josephus on idolatry; title: Paul, Roman religion and the emperor : mapping the point of conflict; title: Why the Roman Empire was insignificant to Paul.