Identity formation in the New Testament
By: edited by Bengt Holmberg and Mikael Winninge.
Contributors: Holmberg, Bengt, 1942-; Winninge, Mikael.
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 227
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 341
ISBN-13: 9783161496875
Subjects: Bible. -- N.T. -- Criticism, interpretation, etc. -- Congresses.; Identification (Religion) -- Biblical teaching -- Congresses.
Genres: Congresses.
Notes: Lectures and seminar discussions of the Nordic New Testament Conference, Aug. 18-22, 2007 at Sundsgårdens Folkhögskola.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [287]-316) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Christology and identity in an intertextual perspective : the glory of Adam in the narrative substructure of Paul's letter to the Romans / Samuel Byrskog; title: The controversy on self-testimony according to John 5:31-40; 8:12-20 and Philo, Legum allegoriae III.205-208 / Per Jarle Bekken; title: Rituals of (ex-)communication and identitiy : 1 Cor. 5 and 4Q266 11; 4Q 270 7 / Tobias Hägerland; title: Literary strategies of personification / Judith Lieu; title: The antagonists : rhetorically marginalized identities in the New Testament / Laurie Thurén; title: Son of Man and early Christian identity formation / Thomas Kazen; title: Social identity and a stereotype in the making : Pharisees as hypocrites in Matt. 23 / Raimo Hakola; title: Act as a Christ-believer, as a household member or both? A cognitive perspective on the relation between the social identity in Christ and household identities in pauline and deutero-pauline texts / Rikard Roitto; title: Body, gender, and social space : dilemmas in constructing early Christian identities / Halvor Moxnes -  A man has to do what a man has to do : protocols of masculine sexual behaviour and 1 Corinthians 5-7 / Fredrik Ivarsson; title: Masculine or feminine? Male virgins in Joseph and Aseneth and the Book of Revelation / Hanna Stenström; title: The parousia as medicine : a postcolonial persective on Mark and Christian identity construction / Hans Leander; title: Mission of Christ and local communities in Acts / Christina Petterson; title: Perpetua and Felicitas : reinterpreting empire, family and gender / Anna Rebecca Solevåg.