The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco Roman Context

The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco Roman Context
Author: David Edward Aune,John Fotopoulos
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 495
Release: 2006
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004143043

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This volume is a collection of newly published scholarly studies honoring Prof.Dr. David. E. Aune on his 65th birthday. These groundbreaking studies written by prominent international scholars investigate a range of topics in the New Testament and early Christian literature with insights drawn from Greco-Roman culture and Hellenistic Judaism.

The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco Roman Context

The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco Roman Context
Author: John Fotopoulos
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 494
Release: 2006-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789047407140

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This volume is a collection of newly published scholarly studies honoring Prof.Dr. David. E. Aune on his 65th birthday. These groundbreaking studies written by prominent international scholars investigate a range of topics in the New Testament and early Christian literature with insights drawn from Greco-Roman culture and Hellenistic Judaism.

Christian Origins and Greco Roman Culture

Christian Origins and Greco Roman Culture
Author: Stanley E. Porter,Andrew W. Pitts
Publsiher: BRILL
Total Pages: 764
Release: 2013
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9789004234161

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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. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Hellenistic culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Greco-Roman texts.

Early Christian Literature

Early Christian Literature
Author: Helen Rhee
Publsiher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2005
Genre: History
ISBN: 0415354889

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This work concerns the early Christians' self-definitions and self-representations in the context of pagan-Christian conflict, reflected in the literatures from the mid-second to the early third centuries (ca. 150 - 225 CE).

The Greco Roman World of the New Testament Era

The Greco Roman World of the New Testament Era
Author: James S. Jeffers
Publsiher: InterVarsity Press
Total Pages: 356
Release: 2009-08-20
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780830878024

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What was life like for first-century Christians? Imagine a modest-sized Roman home of a well-to-do Christian household wedged into a thickly settled quarter of Corinth. In the lingering light of a summer evening, men, women and children, merchants, working poor and slaves, a mix of races and backgrounds have assembled in the dimly lit main room are are spilling into the central courtyard. This odd assortment of gathered believers—some thirty in number—are attentive as the newly arrived and travel-weary emissary from Paul reads from the papyrus scroll he has brought from their apostolic mentor. But if you were to be transported to this scene you would perhaps be overwhelmed by a flood of unexpected difference. The voice of the reader recedes as through open windows the din and clamor of the city assault your ears. Hooves clunk and cart wheels grind and echo from the street while drivers shout, vendors call and neighbors gather and converse. And later, as you accompany a family through darkened and dangerous streets to their third-story tenement apartment, you might try to mask your shock at the cramped and unsafe conditions. In The Greco-Roman World of the New Testament Era James Jeffers provides an informative and scenic tour of daily life during the time of Jesus and the apostles. He affords "you-are-there" glimpses of everything from legal codes to dinner foods, from social hierarchy to apartment living, from education to family dynamics. His eye-opening book will advance your understanding of the New Testament and early Christianity and enrich your reading and application of the Bible.

The Origins of Early Christian Literature

The Origins of Early Christian Literature
Author: Robyn Faith Walsh
Publsiher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 247
Release: 2021-01-28
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 9781108835305

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The Synoptic gospels were written by elites educated in Greco-Roman literature, not exclusively by and for early Christian communities.

The Graeco Roman Context of Early Christian Literature

The Graeco Roman Context of Early Christian Literature
Author: Roman Garrison
Publsiher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 129
Release: 1997-01-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780826437860

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In this volume of essays the Graeco-Roman background and context of early Christianity are explored for significant parallels. From the athlete metaphor in 1 Corinthians 9 to the role of Aphrodite as the goddess of love and sexuality, the important cultural symbols and terminology that the first Christians employed are examined. Garrison maintains that the Graeco-Roman setting of early Christianity is essential to our understanding of the New Testament and the Apostolic Fathers.

The New Testament in Its Literary Environment

The New Testament in Its Literary Environment
Author: David Edward Aune
Publsiher: James Clarke & Co.
Total Pages: 270
Release: 1988
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0227679105

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A study of the relationship between the New Testament writings and other literature of late antiquity. This comprehensive introduction identifies and describes the major literary genres and forms found in the New Testament and Early Christian non-canonical literature. Comparing them with those prevalent in Judaism and Hellenism, it sheds light on the conventions that the New Testament writers chose to follow.