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Reconstructing Honor in Roman Philippi - Carmen Christi as Cursus Pudorum (Paperback)
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Reconstructing Honor in Roman Philippi - Carmen Christi as Cursus Pudorum (Paperback)
Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series
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This book examines Paul's letter to the Philippians against the
social background of the colony at Philippi. After an extensive
survey of Roman social values, Professor Hellerman argues that the
cursus honorum, the formalized sequence of public offices that
marked out the prescribed social pilgrimage for aspiring senatorial
aristocrats in Rome (and which was replicated in miniature in
municipalities and in voluntary associations), forms the background
against which Paul has framed his picture of Jesus in the great
Christ hymn in Philippians 2. In marked contrast to the values of
the dominant culture, Paul portrays Jesus descending what the
author describes as a cursus pudorum ('course of ignominies'). The
passage has thus been intentionally framed to subvert Roman cursus
ideology and, by extension, to redefine the manner in which honour
and power were to be utilized among the Christians at Philippi.
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