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This book contributes to the small but growing literature on the interaction between religion and power in antiquity. Edwards focusses on the eastern ""Greek"" provinces in the first and second centuries A.D.--the period during which Christianity, Judaism, and numerous other religions and cults exploded across the Roman Empire. His purpose is to show how the local elite classes appropriated and manipulated mythic and religious images and practices to establish and consolidate their social, political, and economic power. Edwards considers both archaeological and literary evidence.

Church history --- Christianity and other religions --- Judaism --- Power (Social sciences) --- Empowerment (Social sciences) --- Political power --- Exchange theory (Sociology) --- Political science --- Social sciences --- Sociology --- Consensus (Social sciences) --- Brotherhood Week --- Apostolic Church --- Christianity --- Church, Apostolic --- Early Christianity --- Early church --- Primitive and early church --- Primitive Christianity --- Fathers of the church --- Great Apostasy (Mormon doctrine) --- Greek. --- Roman. --- Judaism. --- Relations --- Christianity. --- Rome --- Middle East --- Religion. --- 261.2 --- 27 "00/05" --- 261.2 De Kerk en het klassieke heidendom --- De Kerk en het klassieke heidendom --- Jews --- Religions --- Semites --- Syncretism (Christianity) --- Greek religion --- Roman religion --- Relations&delete& --- Kerkgeschiedenis--?"00/05" --- Religion --- History --- Greek religion. --- Roman religion.

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After a survey of recent approaches to the study of Paul's use of Scripture, the four main chapters explore the use of Isa. 54:1 in Gal. 4:27, the catena of scriptural texts in 2 Cor. 6:16-18, Hos. 1:10 and 2:23 in Rom. 9:25-26 and Isa. 57:19 in Eph. 2:17.In each case, the ancienwriter seeks to place the letter in its historical context and rhetorical situation, identify the significance of any conflations or modifications that have taken place in the citation process, analyse the citation's function within its immediate context, compare its use by Paul with the various ways in which the text is interpreted and appropriated by other Second Temple writers, and evaluate the main proposals offered as explanations for the riddle posed by the citation. That done, he offers his own account of the hermeneutic at work, based on an analysis of the explicit and implicit hermeneutical pointers through which the letter guides its readers in their appropriation of Scripture.This book compares the hermeneutical approaches of the four letters and draws conclusionsconcerning the interplay of continuity and discontinuity between Scripture and gospel in Paul's letters and the relationship between grace and Gentile inclusion in his theology.

Gentiles in the New Testament --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Quotations in the New Testament --- Gentiles in the New Testament. --- 227.08 --- 261.2 --- Paulinische theologie --- De Kerk en het klassieke heidendom --- Bible. --- Antico Testamento --- Hebrew Bible --- Hebrew Scriptures --- Kitve-ḳodesh --- Miḳra --- Old Testament --- Palaia Diathēkē --- Pentateuch, Prophets, and Hagiographa --- Sean-Tiomna --- Stary Testament --- Tanakh --- Tawrāt --- Torah, Neviʼim, Ketuvim --- Torah, Neviʼim u-Khetuvim --- Velho Testamento --- Epistles of Paul --- Paul, Epistles of --- Paul Sŏsin --- Pauline epistles --- Risālat al-Qiddīs Būlus al-rasūl al-thāniyah ilá Tīmūthīʼūs --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Quotations in the New Testament. --- 261.2 De Kerk en het klassieke heidendom --- 227.08 Paulinische theologie --- Gentiles. --- Grace. --- Hermeneutics. --- Paul. --- Scripture.