Early Christian ethics in interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts
By: edited by Jan Willem van Henten, Joseph Verheyden
Series: Studies in theology and religion (STAR) -- v. 17; Studies in theology and religion -- v. 17.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng; grc
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9789004237001; 9789004242159
Subjects: Christliche Ethik; Bible; Judaism; Frühjudentum; Christian ethics; Criticism, interpretation; Religion; Early church; Post-exilic period (Judaism); Ethics; History; Hellenismus; Frühchristentum
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 263-290) and indexes.

English with excerpts in ancient Greek.
Table of contents: title: Early Christianity in its Hellenistic context : a critical survey of 20th century research  -- Reinhard Feldmeier; title: Early Christianity in its Jewish context : a brief look at 20th century research  -- Gerbern S. Oegema; title: Finding a basis for interpreting New Testament ethos from a Greco-Roman philosophical perspective  -- Anders Klostergaard Petersen; title: Some issues behind the ethics in the Qumran scrolls and their implications for New Testament ethics  -- George J. Brooke; title: The relevance of Jewish inscriptions for New Testament ethics  -- Andrew Chester; title: The importance of Hellenistic Judaism for the study of Paul's ethics  -- Thomas H. Tobin; title: "Ethical" traditions, family ethos, and love in the Johannine literature  -- Jörg Frey; title: Good as a moral category in the early Jesus tradition  -- Hermut Löhr; title: Ethics and anthropology in the letter of James : an outline  -- Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr; title: Essentials of ethics in Matthew and the Didache : a comparison at a conceptual and practical level -- Huub van de Sandt.