Conceptions of "Gospel" and legitimacy in early Christianity
By: James A. Kelhoffer
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 324; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 324.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9783161526367
Subjects: Primitive and early church; Apologetik; Church; Theologie; Criticism, interpretation; Exegese; Exegetik; Authority; Bible; Church history; History of doctrines; Frühchristentum
Other titles: Gospel and legitimacy
Notes: Reworked and updated essays which were published previously.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-368) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: New Testament exegesis as an academic discipline with relevance for other disciplines --; title: Early Christian studies among the academic disciplines: reflections on John the Baptist's "locusts and wild honey" --; title: The significance of the earthly Jesus in Matthew: a response to Jack Dean Kingsbury --; title: "How soon a book" revisited: [euangelion] as a reference to "gospel" materials in the first half of the second century --; title: Basilides's Gospel and Exegetica (Treatises) --; title: The struggle to define Heilsgeschichte: Paul on the origins of the Christian tradition --; title: The witness of Eusebius's ad Marinum and other Christian writings to text-critical debates concerning the original conclusion to Mark's Gospel --; title: The Maccabees at prayer: pro- and anti-Hasmonean tendencies in the prayers of First and Second Maccabees --; title: Suffering as defense of Paul's apostolic authority in Galatians and 2 Corinthians 11 --; title: The Apostle Paul and Justin Martyr on the miraculous: a comparison of appeals to authority --; title: The gradual disclosure of Paul's violence against Christians in the Acts of the Apostles as an apology for the standing of the Lukan Paul --; title: The relevance of Revelation's date and the imperial cult for John's appraisal of the value of Christians' suffering in Revelation 1-3 --; title: "Hippolytus" and magic: an examination of Elenchos IV.28-42 and related passages in light of the Greek Magical Papyri --; title: The search for confessors at the Council of Nicaea --; title: Suppressing anger in early Christianity: examples from the Pauline tradition --; title: Early Christian ascetic practices and biblical interpretation: the witnesses of Galen and Tatian.