The social world of the first christians : essays in honor of Wayne A. Meeks / editado por L. Michael White y O. Larry Yarbrough. - 418 páginas ; 24 cm

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PAUL AND HIS COMMUNITIES -- Euodia and Syntyche and Paul's Letter to the Philippians -- Christ, the Elements of the Cosmos, and the Law in Galatians -- The Weak and the Strong: Paul's Careful and Crafty Rhetorical Strategy in Romans 14:1-15:13 -- Exeûoç: A Modest Proposal for Illuminating Paul's Use of Metaphor in 1 Thessalonians 4:4 -- Support for His Old Age: Paul's Plea on Behalf of Onesimus -- Paul's Thorn and Cultural Models of Affliction -- Light on Paul from the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs? -- God's New Family in Thessalonica -- Parents and Children in the Letters of Paul -- EARLY CHRISTIANS IN THEIR SOCIAL WORLD -- Matthew and the Spirit -- The Problem of Perjury in Greek Context: Prolegomena to an Exegesis of Matthew 5:33; 1 Timothy 1:10; and Didache 2.3 -- The Social World of James: Literary Analy sis and Historical Reconstruction -- The Footwashing in John 13:6-11: Transformation Ritual or Ceremony? -- Rich and Poor, Proud and Humble in Luke-Acts -- Visualizing the "Real" World of Acts 16: Toward Construction of a Social Index – The Red Hall in Pergamon -- On the Nature of Magic: Report on a Dialogue between a Historian and a Sociologist -- Greeks Who Sacrifice and Those Who Do Not: Toward an Anthropology of Greek Religion -- Prolegomena to the Study of Ancient Gnosticism -- THE SHAPING OF EARLY CHRISTIAN CULTURE -- Contesting Abraham: The Ascetic Reader and the Politics of Intertextuality -- Augustine's The Spirit and the Letter as a Reading of Paul's Romans -- Sinned We All in Adam's Fall?



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Pablo, Apóstol, Santo --Teología.


Biblia.--Nuevo Testamento--Historia y crítica
Biblia.--N.T.--Crítica, interpretación, etc.


Cristianismo primitivo
Comunidades cristianas primitivas
Mundo grecorromano--Religión
Iglesia primitiva--Historia

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