Filled With the Spirit

by Levison, John R.

• ISBN13: 9780802863720
• ISBN10: 0802863728
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-10-06
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

Containing meticulous, up-to-date scholarship yet written in a flowing, enjoyable style, this comprehensive book takes readers on a journey through a breathtaking array of literary texts, encompassing the literature of Israel, early Judaism, the Greco-Roman world, and the New Testament. John R. Levisons skill with ancient texts already demonstrated in his acclaimed The Spirit in First-Century Judaism is here extended to a myriad of other expressions of the Spirit in antiquity.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. ix
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. xiv
Israelite Literature
Prescript to Part I: Hermann Gunkel, the Spirit, and the Spectacular	p. 3
Spirit in the Shadow of Death	p. 14
Wisdom and Spirit Within	p. 34
Spirit and New Creation in the Shadow of Death	p. 87
Postscript to Part I	p. 104
Jewish Literature
Prescript to Part II: Hermann Gunkel, the Spirit, and the Impoverishment of Judaism	p. 109
A Wise and Holy Spirit Within	p. 118
Spirit and the Allure of Ecstasy	p. 154
Spirit and Inspired Knowledge	p. 178
Ezekiel's Vision and the Dawn of Purity	p. 202
Postscript to Part II	p. 218
Early Christian Literature
Prescript to Part III: Hermann Gunkel, the Spirit, and Diversity in Early Christian Literature	p. 225
Vestiges of Earlier Eras	p. 236
Filled with the Spirit and the Letters of Paul	p. 253
Filled with the Spirit and the Book of Acts	p. 317
Filled with the Spirit, the Fourth Gospel, and 1 John	p. 366
Postscript to Part III	p. 422
Epilogue	p. 426
Index of Modern Authors	p. 430
Index of Subjects and Ancient Names	p. 433
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 447
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