This is the first of three volumes collectively titled Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Context. The three volumes will appear in two different series: v.1 and v.2 in TENTS (Texts and Editions for New Testament Study); and v.3, because of its focus on language, in LBS (Linguistic Biblical Studies). Editors Porter and Pitts are both affiliated with McMaster Divinity College, Canada. Twenty-five contributions are arranged in sections on Greco-Roman social contexts for Christian origins, and Greco-Roman literary contexts for Christian origins. Authors were invited to fully develop their topics, and many of the articles are 30 pages are more. A sampling of topics: manuscripts, scribes, and book production; reconstructing early Christianity from papyrological evidence; space, movement, and morality in the Roman Empire; Luke as a Hellenistic historian; letter openings in Paul and Plato; and exegetical practices in Justin and Galen. Indexing is by modern authors and by ancient sources. Annotation ©2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
In Christian Origins and Greco-Roman Culture, Stanley Porter and Andrew Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through the use of Greco-Roman materials and literary forms.
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... readers are given a master-class in the use of texts from Greco-Roman and Hellenistic Jewish sources to enrich the understanding of the emergence of Christianity.
Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, Expository Times 126/6, March 2015
1. Greco-Roman Culture in the History of New Testament Interpretation:
An Introductory Essay.
Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
2. Manuscripts, Scribes, and Book Production within Early Christianity.
Michael J. Kruger
3. What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? Reconstructing Early Christianity
from its Manuscripts.
Stanley E. Porter
4. Recent Efforts to Reconstruct Early Christianity on the Basis of its
Papyrological Evidence.
Stanley E. Porter
5. Jesus and Parallel Jewish and Greco-Roman Figures.
Craig S. Keener
6. The Exorcisms and Healings of Jesus within Classical Culture.
Tony Costa
7. Cash and Release: Atonement and Release from Oppression in the Imperial
Context of Lukes Gospel.
Matthew Forrest Lowe
8. Luke and Juvenal at the Crossroads: Space, Movement, and Morality in the
Roman Empire.
Osman Umurhan and Todd Penner
9. Jesus, the Beloved Disciple, and Greco-Roman Friendship Conventions.
Ronald F. Hock
10. The Imitation of the Great Man in Antiquity: Pauls Inversion of a
Cultural Icon.
James R. Harrison
11. Ephesians: Pauls Political Theology in Greco-Roman Political Context.
Fredrick J. Long
12. Exiles, Islands, and the Identity and Perspective of John in Revelation.
Brian Mark Rapske
13. Source Citation in Greek Historiography and in Luke(-Acts).
Andrew W. Pitts
14. Ancient Greek History and its Methodology for Speeches: Is There a
Relation to Luke?
Sean A. Adams
15. Luke as a Hellenistic Historian.
Paul L. Maier
16. The Genre of the Fourth Gospel and Greco-Roman Literary Conventions.
Andreas J. Köstenberger
17. Classical Greek Poetry and the Acts of the Apostles: Imitations of
Euripides Bacchae.
Dennis R. MacDonald
18. Prescripts and Greco-Roman Epistolary Conventions.
E. Randolph Richards
19. Letter Openings in Paul and Plato.
James Starr
20. Progymnasmatic Love.
R. Dean Anderson
21. This Is A Great Metaphor! Reciprocity in the Ephesians Household Code.
Cynthia Long Westfall
22. Turning on its Head: The Rhetoric of Reversal in Ephesians
5:21-33.
Michelle Lee-Barnewell
23. Frank Speech at Work in Hebrews.
Benjamin Fiore, S.J.
24. The Strategic Arousal of Emotions in the Apocalypse of John (Part I): A
Rhetorical-Critical Investigation of the Oracles to the Seven Churches.
David A. deSilva
25. The Didache as a Christian Enchiridion.
William Varner
26. The Classroom in the Text: Exegetical Practices in Justin and Galen.
H. Gregory Snyder
Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President and Dean, and Professor of New Testament, at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes, and articles in the field of New Testament studies and related disciplines, including Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory (2011).
Andrew W. Pitts is a Ph.D. candidate in Christian Theology at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and has published articles in journals such as JBL, JGRChJ and CBR, as well as a number of chapters in edited volumes.
