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Paul : the pagans' apostle
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ISBN: 9780300225884 0300225881 Year: 2017 Publisher: New Haven (Conn.) : Yale university press,

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Often seen as the author of timeless Christian theology, Paul himself heatedly maintained that he lived and worked in history's closing hours. His letters propel his readers into two ancient worlds, one Jewish, one pagan. The first was incandescent with apocalyptic hopes, expecting God through his messiah to fulfill his ancient promises of redemption to Israel. The second teemed with ancient actors, not only human but also divine: angry superhuman forces, jealous demons, and hostile cosmic gods. Both worlds are Paul's, and his convictions about the first shaped his actions in the second. Only by situating Paul within this charged social context of gods and humans, pagans and Jews, cities, synagogues, and competing Christ-following assemblies can we begin to understand his mission and message. This original and provocative book offers a dramatically new perspective on one of history's seminal figures.


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Creation language in Romans 8
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ISBN: 9789004246485 9789004250802 9004250808 9781299476486 1299476481 9004246487 Year: 2013 Publisher: Leiden Boston BRILL

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Modern scholarship tends to understand Paul’s use of creation language (κτίσις) in Rom 8.18–23 as part of a commentary on the state of sub-human creation. This misguided position warrants an inquiry into the state of lexical study in New Testament scholarship. As a result, Fewster articulates a theory of lexical monosemy, cast in the framework of Systemic Functional Linguistics. The model is applied to Paul’s use of κτίσις through a robust corpus analysis and investigation into the word's role within the paragraph. κτίσις contributes to the cohesive structure of Rom 8.18–23 and—contra the majority of interpreters—functions as a metaphor for the human body.


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Paul and Seneca in dialogue
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ISBN: 9789004341357 9789004341364 9004341366 9004341358 Year: 2017 Volume: 2 Publisher: Leiden Brill

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Paul and Seneca in Dialogue' assembles an international group of scholars to compare the philosophical and theological strands in Paul and Seneca?s writings, placing them in dialogue with one another. Arguably, no other first-century, non-Christian writer?s thoughts resemble Paul?s as closely as Seneca?s, and scholars have often found value in comparing Pauline concepts with Seneca?s writings. Nevertheless, apart from the occasional article, broad comparison, or cross-reference, an in-depth critical comparison of these writers has not been attempted for over fifty years ? since Sevenster?s monograph of 1961. In the light of the vast amount of research offering new perspectives on both Paul and Seneca since the early 1960s, this new comparison of the two writers is long overdue.


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Godly fear or ungodly failure? : Hebrews 12 and the Sinai theophanies
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ISBN: 9783110426571 3110426579 9783110422597 9783110422764 311042259X 311042276X 9783110422603 3110422603 Year: 2016 Volume: 216 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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A cursory glance at Hebrews' critique of Israel's fear at Sinai in Heb 12:18-29 suggests that the author has misunderstood or manipulated his sources. In the Pentateuch, the appointment of Moses as Israel's mediator receives explicit approval (Exod 19:9; Deut 5:28), while Heb 12:25 labels their request for mediation a "refusal" to heed the word of God. This book argues that Hebrews' use of the Sinai narratives resides on a complex trajectory established by four points: the Sinai covenant according to Exodus, the reenactment of that covenant according to Deuteronomy, the call for a NEW covenant according to Jeremiah, and the present reality of that covenant established by God and mediated by Jesus Christ.The basis for Hebrews' critique arises from its insight that while Israel's request established covenant-from-a-distance, Jesus demonstrates that true covenant mediation brings two parties into a single space. The purpose for Hebrews critique lies in its summons to Zion, the mountain on which Jesus sits at the right hand of God as the high priestly mediator of the new covenant.


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Galatians
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ISBN: 1573128279 9781573128278 9781573127714 157312771X Year: 2015 Publisher: Macon Smyth & Helwys


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Hostility in the House of God
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ISBN: 1575064472 9781575064475 9781575064468 1575064464 Year: 2021 Publisher: University Park, PA

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Virtually all scholars acknowledge the presence of opponents in 1 and 2 Timothy, but there is considerable disagreement over the identity of these opponents and the author's way of handling them. In this volume, Thornton provides a critique of a number of extant theories, including ""Gnostic, "" Jewish, and proto-Montanist identifications, and develops a rigorous methodology for unmasking the opponents who appear in these letters. He argues that the opponents came from within the Christian community in Ephesus and that their teaching is best described as an erroneous eschatological position tha.


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A discourse analysis of Philippians : method and rhetoric in the debate over literary integrity
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ISBN: 1850756384 9781850756385 Year: 1997 Volume: 136 Publisher: Sheffield Sheffield academic press

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This large-scale work is the application of modern theories of discourse analysis to questions of Greek grammar, especially with respect to the debate over the literary integrity of Philippians. Chapter 1 introduces the linguistic theory of discourse analysis, defining key terms, sketching its historical evolution and outlining its major tenets. Chapter 2 sets forth a model of discourse analysis primarily based on the systemic functional theories of M.A.K. Halliday. Chapter 3 outlines the historical-critical debate over the literary integrity of Philippians. Chapter 4 inspects the genre of Phi.


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Lifting the veil : 2 Corinthians 3:7-18 in light of Jewish homiletic and commentary traditions
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ISBN: 9783110374315 3110374315 9783110368963 9783110392739 3110368978 3110392739 311036896X Year: 2015 Volume: 210 Publisher: Berlin De Gruyter

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"What accounts for the seemingly atypical pattern of scriptural exegesis that Paul uses to interpret Exodus 34 in 2 Cor 3:7-18? While previous scholars have approached this question from a variety of angles, in this monograph, Michael Cover grapples particularly with the evidence of contemporaneous Jewish and Greco-Roman commentary traditions. Through comparison with Philo of Alexandria's Allegorical Commentary, the Pseudo-Philonic homilies De Jona and De Sampsone, the anonymous Theaetetus Commentary, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Seneca's Epistulae morales, and other New Testament texts, Paul's interpretation of Exodus emerges as part of a wider commentary practice that Cover terms 'secondary-level exegesis.'"--

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