Jesus, Paul, and the early church
Subtitle: missionary realities in historical contexts : collected essays
By: Eckhard J. Schnabel
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 406; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 406.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2018
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 609
ISBN-13: 9783161560613; 9783161560620
Copyright date: 2018
Subjects: Biography; Public life; Criticism, interpretation; Church history; Gentiles in the New Testament; Primitive and early church; Bible
Description: This volume contains seventeen essays written by Eckhard J. Schnabel over the past 25 years. They focus on the realities of the work of Jesus, Paul, John, and the early church, exploring aspects of the history, missionary expansion, and theology of the early church including lexical, ethical, and ecclesiological questions. Specific subjects discussed include Jesus' silence at his trial, the introduction of foreign deities to Athens, the understanding of Rom 12:1, Paul's ethics, the meaning of baptizein, the realities of persecution, Christian identity and mission in Revelation, and singing and instrumental music in the early church. --
Notes: Collection of texts published previously.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 532-534) and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Preface -- Abbreviations; title: Jesus : Messianic Teacher --; title: Jesus and the Beginnings of the Mission to the Gentiles --; title: The Silence of Jesus : The Galilean Rabbi Who Was More Than a Teacher --; title: Paul : Missionary Theologian --; title: Introducing Foreign Deities : The Documentary Evidence --; title: Repentance in Paul's Letters --; title: Evangelism and the Mission of the Church --; title: Lives That Speak : ... in Romans 12:1 --; title: How Paul Developed his Ethics : Motivations, Norms, and Criteria of Pauline Ethics --; title: The Early Church Missionary Realities in Historical Contexts --; title: The Meaning of ... in Greek, Jewish, and Patristic Literature --; title: The Language of Baptism : The Meaning of ... in the New Testament --; title: Jewish Opposition to Christians in Asia Minor in the First Century --; title: Early Christian Mission and Christian Identity in the Context of the Ethnic, Social, and Political Affiliations in Revelation --; title: Christians, Jews, and Pagans in the book of Revelation : Persecution, Perseverance, and Purity in the Shadow of the Last Judgment --; title: John and the Future of the Nations --; title: Singing and Instrumental Music in the Early Church --; title: Divine Tyranny and Public Humiliation : A Suggestion for the Interpretation of the Lydian and Phrygian Confession Inscriptions --; title: Knowing the Divine and Divine Knowledge in Greco-Roman Religion --; title: The Theology of the New Testament as Missionary Theology : The Missionary Reality of the Early Church and the Theology of the First Theologians ---- First Publication and Permissions-- Index of Ancient Sources-- Index of Modern Authors-- Index of Subjects.