Light from the Gentiles
Subtitle: Hellenistic philosophy and early Christianity : collected essays, 1959-2012
By: by Abraham J. Malherbe ; edited by Carl R. Holladay, John T. Fitzgerald, James W. Thompson, Gregory E. Sterling
Contributors: Holladay, Carl R., editor; Fitzgerald, John T., 1948- editor; Thompson, James W. (James Weldon), 1942- editor; Sterling, Gregory E., editor
Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- volume 150; Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 150.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 1113
ISBN-13: 9789004253391; 9789004253377; 9789004253384; 9789004256521
Subjects: Bible; Classical Civilization; Ancient Philosophy; Literatur; Bibel; Bibeln; Greek literature; Church history; Relation to the New Testament; Hellenismus; History; Primitive and early church; Antikens filosofi; Christianity and culture; Criticism, interpretation; History and criticism; Influence; Early church; Rezeption; Philosophy and religion; Frühchristentum; Philosophie; Early Christian literature
Other titles: Hellenistic philosophy and early Christianity
Description: Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the "background" against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse intellectual traditions that interacted within specific social contexts. These essays, spanning over fifty years, illustrate Malherbe's appreciation of the complexities of this ecology and what is required to explore philological and conceptual connections between early Christian writers, especially Paul and Athenagoras, and their literary counterparts who participated in the religious and philosophical discourse of the wider culture. Malherbe's essays laid the groundwork for the magisterial commentary on the Thessalonian correspondence and launched the contemporary study of Hellenistic moral philosophy and early Christianity. (provided by publisher).
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: v. 1. Neotestamentica: The Corinthian contribution ; The task and method of exegesis ; The beasts at Ephesus ; "Gentle as a nurse" : the Cynic background to 1 Thessalonians 2 ; The inhospitality of Diotrephes ; Social level and literary culture of early Christianity ; MH I'ENOITO in the diatribe and Paul ; Medical imagery in the Pastoral Epistles ; Antisthenes and Odysseus, and Paul at war ; Exhortation in First Thessalonians ; "In season and out of season" : 2 Timothy 4:2 ; Paul : Hellenistic philosopher or Christian pastor?; title: "Not in a corner" : early Christian apologetic in Acts 26:26 ; "Pastoral care" in the Thessalonian church ; Did the Thessalonians write to Paul? ;Traditions and theology of care in the New Testament ; Paulus Senex ; Determinism and free will in Pau l: the argument of 1 Corinthians 8 and 9 ; God's new family at Thessalonica;- Paul's self-sufficiency (Philippians 4:11) ; The Christianization of a topos (Luke 12:13-34) ; Conversion to Paul's gospel ; Anti-Epicurean rhetoric in 1 Thessalonians ; The Apostle Paul as a pastor ; Paraenesis in the Epistle to Titus ; "Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners" : soteriology in the Pastoral Epistles ; The virtus feminarum in 1 Timothy 2:9-15 ; How to treat old women and old men : the use of philosophical traditions and Scripture in 1 Timothy 5 ; Godliness, self-sufficiency, greed, and the enjoyment of wealth : 1 Timothy 6:3-19 ; Overseers as household managers in the Pastoral Epistles ; Ethics in context : the Thessalonians and their neighbors.; title: v. 2. Philosophica: Pseudo-Heraclitus, Epistle 4 : the divinization of the wise man ; Self-definition among the Cynics ; Heracles ;Hellenistic moralists and the New Testament ; The cultural context of the New Testament : the Graeco-Roman world; title: Patristica: Apologetic and philosophy in the second century ; Towards understanding the apologists : review article ; The structure of Athenagoras, Supplicatio pro Christianis ; Athenagoras on Christian ethics ; The Holy Spirit in Athenagoras ; Athenagoras on the location of God ; Athenagoras on the poets and philosophers ; The apologetic theology of the Preaching of Peter ; Justin and Crescens ; A physical description of Paul ; "Seneca" on Paul as letter writer; title: Theologica and miscellanea: A people under the Word : theological interpretation ; Continuities in scholarship : the work of Nils Dahl ; A review of Hans Dieter Betz, ed., Plutarch's ethical writings and early Christian literature ; A review of Helmut Koester, Introduction to the New Testament ; On the writing of commentaries.