TY - BOOK AU - Meeks, Wayne A. AU - White, Michael L., AU - Yarbrough, Larry O., TI - The social world of the first christians: essays in honor of Wayne A. Meeks SN - 0800625854 U1 - 225.9 20 PY - 1995/// CY - Minneapolis, MN PB - Fortress press KW - Pablo, KW - Biblia KW - Nuevo Testamento KW - Historia y crítica KW - N.T KW - Crítica, interpretación, etc KW - Cristianismo primitivo KW - Comunidades cristianas primitivas KW - Mundo grecorromano KW - Religión KW - Iglesia primitiva KW - Historia N1 - Incluye bibliografía; 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?; SEG42; SEG41; SEG40; SEG39; P94; P87; P86; P85; P77; P76; P35 ER -