The making of Christianity
Subtitle: conflicts, contacts, and constructions ; essays in honor of Bengt Holmberg
By: edited by Magnus Zetterholm and Samuel Byrskog
Series: Coniectanea Biblica. New Testament series -- 47; Coniectanea biblica -- 47.
Publisher: Eisenbrauns
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Winona Lake, Indiana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781575068176
Subjects: Primitive and early church; Urchristentum; Neues Testament; Church history
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 395-438) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: From memory to memoirs : tracing the background of a literary genre / Samuel Byrskog; title: Gentile identity and transformation in Christ according to Paul / William S. Campbell; title: Baptism and the formation of identity / Adela Yarbro Collins; title: The legal status of the earliest Christian churches / James D.G. Dunn; title: Basic facts about the synoptic parables : what they are and what they are not / Birger Gerhardsson; title: "Their wives are as chaste as virgins, their daughters modest" : the role of women in early Christian apologetics / Judith M. Lieu; title: Pope Benedict's historical validation of Jesus' incarnation / Dieter Mitternacht; title: Constructing the Galilee of Jesus in an age of ethnic identity / Halvor Moxnes; title: Johannine Christians : members of a renewed covenant? : Jewish/Christian identity according to the Johannine letters / Birger Olsson; title: Was there a Christian mission before the fourth century? : problematizing common ideas about early Christianity and the beginnings of modern mission / Anders Runesson; title: Statues and identity : Dion of Prusa's (Dio Chrysostomos) Rhodian discourse (Or. 31) and the New Testament / Karl Olav Sandnes; title: Ephesus and power : early Christian textual prototypes of authority in a local perspective / Mikael Tellbe; title: The letter to the Romans and Paul's plural identity : a dialogical self in dialogue with Judaism and Christianity / Gerd Theissen; title: Misquoting manuscripts? : the orthodox corruption of scripture revisited / Tommy Wasserman; title: The Judaism Paul left behind him / Stephen Westerholm; title: "Will the real Gentile-Christian please stand up!" : Torah and the crisis of identity formation / Magnus Zetterholm.