The Social World of the First Christians

by White, L. Michael; Yarbrough, O. Larry

• ISBN13: 9780800625856
• ISBN10: 0800625854
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1995-02-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Table of Contents

Contributors
Preface
Abbreviations
An Appreciation
Bibliography: The Writings of Wayne A. Meeks
Paul and His Communities
Euodia and Syntyche and Paul's Letter to the Philippians	p. 3
Christ, the Elements of the Cosmos, and the Law in Galatians	p. 16
The Weak and the Strong: Paul's Careful and Crafty Rhetorical Strategy in Romans 14:1-15:13	p. 40
[actual symbol not reproducible]: A Modest Proposal for Illuminating Paul's Use of Metaphor in 1 Thessalonians 4:4	p. 53
A Support for His Old Age: Paul's Plea on Behalf of Onesimus	p. 67
Paul's Thorn and Cultural Models of Affliction	p. 82
Light on Paul from the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs?	p. 100
God's New Family in Thessalonica	p. 116
Parents and Children in the Letters of Paul	p. 126
Early Christians in Their Social World
Matthew and the Spirit	p. 145
The Problem of Perjury in Greek Context: Prolegomena to an Exegesis of Matthew 5:33; 1 Timothy 1:10; and Didache 2.3	p. 156
The Social World of James: Literary Analysis and Historical Reconstruction	p. 178
The Footwashing in John 13:6-11: Transformation Ritual or Ceremony?	p. 198
Rich and Poor, Proud and Humble in Luke-Acts	p. 214
Visualizing the "Real" World of Acts 16: Toward Construction of a Social Index	p. 234
The Religious and Social Environment of Early Christianity
The Red Hall in Pergamon	p. 265
On the Nature of Magic: Report on a Dialogue between a Historian and a Sociologist	p. 275
Greeks Who Sacrifice and Those Who Do Not: Toward an Anthropology of Greek Religion	p. 293
Prolegomena to the Study of Ancient Gnosticism	p. 334
The Shaping of Early Christian Culture
Contesting Abraham: The Ascetic Reader and the Politics of Intertextuality	p. 353
Augustine's The Spirit and the Letter as a Reading of Paul's Romans	p. 366
Sinned We All in Adam's Fall?	p. 382
Index of Modern Authors	p. 395
Index of Ancient Sources	p. 401
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