Mutual Boasting in Philippians
Subtitle: The Ethical Function of Shared Honor in Its Biblical and Greco-Roman Context
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Published: 2020
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780567694041
Description: "While past studies of Philippians recognize the theme of honour in Philippians and Paul's emphasis on his mutual relations with the culture, the integral relation between these two central themes and the role it plays in Paul's exhortations to the Philippians have not been developed. Taking the intersection of these two themes in the pivotal passages of Phil 1:26 and 2:16 as his focus, Isaac Blois argues that Paul's focus on the mutual boasting shared between Paul and his converts alludes back to the mutual boasting shared between Israel and her covenant God, as apparent in both Deuteronomy and Isaiah"--