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In search of the early Christians : selected essays / Wayne A. Meeks ; edited by Allen R. Hilton and H. Gregory Snyder.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Meeks, Wayne A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Bible. John--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Bible. Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Christianity--Origin.
- Christianity.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 online resource (xxviii, 314 p.))
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, Wayne A. Meeks offers here a selection of his most influential writings on the New Testament and early Christianity. His essays illustrate recent changes in our thinking about the early Christian movement and pose provocative questions regarding the history of this period. Meeks explores a fascinating range of topics, from the figure of the androgyne in antiquity to the timeless matter of God's reliability, from Paul's ethical rhetoric to New Testament pictures of Christianity's separation from Jewish communities. Meeks' introduction offers a retrospective on New Testament studies of the past thirty years and explains the intersection of these studies with a variety of exploratory and revisionist movements in the humanities, embracing social theory, history, anthropology, and literature. In an epilogue the author reflects on future directions for New Testament scholarship.
- Contents:
- Front matter
- CONTENTS
- EDITORS' PREFACE
- AUTHOR'S PREFACE
- REFLECTIONS ON AN ERA
- THE IMAGE OF THE ANDROGYNE
- THE MAN FROM HEAVEN IN JOHANNINE SECTARIANISM
- EQUAL TO GOD
- THE MAN FROM HEAVEN IN PAUL'S LETTER TO THE PHILIPPIANS
- BREAKING AWAY
- "AND ROSE UP TO PLAY"
- JUDGMENT AND THE BROTHER
- THE CIRCLE OF REFERENCE IN PAULINE MORALITY
- A HERMENEUTICS OF SOCIAL EMBODIMENT
- THE POLYPHONIC ETHICS OF THE APOSTLE PAUL
- ON TRUSTING AN UNPREDICTABLE GOD
- VISION OF GOD AND SCRIPTURE INTERPRETATION IN A FIFTH-CENTURY MOSAIC
- AFTERWORD
- A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF WORKS CITED
- SOURCES
- INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES
- SUBJECT INDEX
- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-286) and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 9786611722111
- 9781281722119
- 1281722111
- 9780300130102
- 0300130104
- OCLC:
- 1013956067
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