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9780300091427

In Search of the Early Christians : Selected Essays

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300091427

  • ISBN10:

    0300091427

  • Format: Trade Book
  • Copyright: 2002-05-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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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.

Table of Contents

Editors' Preface vii
Allen R. Hilton
H. Gregory Snyder
Author's Preface ix
Reflections on an Era xi
Wayne A. Meeks
PART ONE: READING AND WRITING THE PAST 1(182)
The Image of the Androgyne: Some Uses of a Symbol in Earliest Christianity
3(52)
The Man from Heaven in Johannine Sectarianism
55(36)
Equal to God
91(15)
The Man from Heaven in Paul's Letter to the Philippians
106(9)
Breaking Away: Three New Testament Pictures of Christianity's Separation from the Jewish Communities
115(24)
``And Rose Up to Play'': Midrash and Parenesis in I Corinthians 10:1-22
139(14)
Judgment and the Brother: Romans 14:1-15: 13
153(14)
The Circle of Reference in Pauline Morality
167(16)
PART TWO: RESPONDING AND REVISIONING 183(71)
A Hermeneutics of Social Embodiment
185(11)
The Polyphonic Ethics of the Apostle Paul
196(14)
On Trusting an Unpredictable God: A Hermeneutical Meditation on Romans 9-11
210(20)
Vision of God and Scripture Interpretation in a Fifth-Century Mosaic
230(24)
Afterword 254(9)
Wayne A. Meeks
Bibliography of Works Cited 263(22)
Sources 285(2)
Index of Biblical References 287(13)
Subject Index 300(9)
Index of Modern Authors 309

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