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Early Christian ethics in interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman contexts / edited by Jan Willem van Henten, Joseph Verheyden.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Studies in theology and religion ; v. 17.
- Studies in theology and religion (STAR), 1566-208X ; v. 17
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Christian ethics--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.
- Christian ethics.
- Judaism--History--Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D.
- Judaism.
- Ethics.
- Greece--Religion.
- Greece.
- Rome--Religion.
- Rome.
- Bible. New Testament--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bible.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (315 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts focuses upon the nexus of early Christian Ethics and its contexts as a dynamic process. The ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman or early Christian traditions as well as with the social-historical context at large continuously transformed early Christian ethics. The volume proposes a dynamic model for studying culture and its various expressions in a society composed of several ethnic and religious groups. The contributions focus on specific transformations of ethics in key documents of early Christianity, or take a more comparative perspective pointing to similar developments and overlaps as well as particularities within early Christian writings, Hellenistic-Jewish writings, Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish inscriptions.
- Contents:
- Front Matter / Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden
- Introduction / Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden
- Early Christianity in Its Hellenistic Context: A Critical Survey of 20th Century Research / Reinhard Feldmeier
- Early Christianity in Its Jewish Context: A Brief Look at 20th Century Research / Gerbern S. Oegema
- Finding a Basis for Interpreting New Testament Ethos from a Greco-Roman Philosophical Perspective / Anders Klostergaard Petersen
- Some Issues behind the Ethics in the Qumran Scrolls and Their Implications for New Testament Ethics / George J. Brooke
- The Relevance of Jewish Inscriptions for New Testament Ethics / Andrew Chester
- The Importance of Hellenistic Judaism for the Study of Paul’s Ethics / Thomas H. Tobin
- “Ethical” Traditions, Family Ethos, and Love in the Johannine Literature / Jörg Frey
- Good As a Moral Category in the Early Jesus Tradition / Hermut Löhr
- Ethics and Anthropology in the Letter of James: An Outline / Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr
- Essentials of Ethics in Matthew and the Didache: A Comparison at a Conceptual and Practical Level / Huub van de Sandt
- Bibliography / Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden
- Indexes / Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-90225-7
- 90-04-24215-5
- OCLC:
- 823389829
- Publisher Number:
- 10.1163/9789004242159 DOI
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