Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-90-04-23700-1
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 17, 306 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 241 mm, Gewicht: 1380 g

Reihe: Studies in Theology and Religion

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.

Zielgruppe

All interested in early Christian ethics and the Jewish and Graeco-Roman contexts of early Christian writings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Henten, Jan Willem van

Verheyden, Joseph

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Systematische Theologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Contributors

Preface
Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden

Introduction
Jan Willem van Henten and Joseph Verheyden

Chapter One: Early Christianity in Its Hellenistic Context: A Critical Survey of 20th Century Research
Reinhard Feldmeier

Chapter Two: Early Christianity in Its Jewish Context: A Brief Look at 20th Century Research
Gerbern S. Oegema

Chapter Three: Finding a Basis for Interpreting New Testament Ethos from a Greco-Roman Philosophical Perspective
Anders Klostergaard Petersen

Chapter Four: Some Issues behind the Ethics in the Qumran Scrolls and Their Implications for New Testament Ethics
George J. Brooke

Chapter Five: The Relevance of Jewish Inscriptions for New Testament Ethics
Andrew Chester

Chapter Six: The Importance of Hellenistic Judaism for the Study of Paul’s Ethics
Thomas H. Tobin

Chapter Seven: “Ethical” Traditions, Family Ethos, and Love in Johannine Literature
Jörg Frey

Chapter Eight: Good as a Moral Category in the Early Jesus Tradition
Hermut Löhr

Chapter Nine: Ethics and Anthropology in the Letter of James: An Outline
Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr

Chapter Ten: Essentials of Ethics in Matthew and the Didache: A Comparison at a Conceptual and Practical Level
Huub van de Sandt

Bibliography
Index of Passages
Subject Index

Über Autor(innen)

Verheyden, Joseph
Joseph Verheyden. Ph.D. Leuven (1987), is Professor of New Testament Studies, at the Catholic University of Leuven. He has published widely in the field of New Testament and Early Christian studies. Recent publications include Ancient Christian Interpretations of "Violent Texts" in the Apocalypse (Göttingen, 2011, edited with T. Nicklas and A. Merkt) and Patristic and Text-critical Studies. The Collected Essays of William L. Petersen (Leiden: Brill, 2012, edited with J. Krans).

Henten, Jan Willem van
Jan Willem van Henten, Ph.D. Leiden (1986), is Professor of New Testament and Director of the Graduate School for Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on Hellenistic Judaism and the contexts of New Testament writings, including Coping with Violence in the New Testament (Leiden: Brill, 2012, edited with P. DeVilliers).

Jan Willem van Henten, Ph.D. Leiden (1986), is Professor of New Testament and Director of the Graduate School for Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on Hellenistic Judaism and the contexts of New Testament writings, including Coping with Violence in the New Testament (Leiden: Brill, 2012, edited with P. DeVilliers).

Joseph Verheyden. Ph.D. Leuven (1987), is Professor of New Testament Studies, at the Catholic University of Leuven. He has published widely in the field of New Testament and Early Christian studies. Recent publications include Ancient Christian Interpretations of "Violent Texts" in the Apocalypse (Göttingen, 2011, edited with T. Nicklas and A. Merkt) and Patristic and Text-critical Studies. The Collected Essays of William L. Petersen (Leiden: Brill, 2012, edited with J. Krans).