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The world surrounding Paul and the assemblies comes vividly to life
here. Documents and Images for the Study of Paul gathers
representative texts illustrating Jewish practices, Greco-Roman
moral exhortation, biblical interpretation, Roman ideology,
apocalyptic visions, epistolary conventions, and more to illustrate
the complex cultural environment in which Paul carried out his
apostolic workand the manifold ways in which his legacy was
reshaped in early Christianity. Paul is the focus of intense and
often controversial scholarly attention today. Brief, insightful
introductions orient the reader to the significance of ancient
sources for different contemporary interpretations of Paul's life
and thought. Photographs illustrate the visual environment of the
Greco-Roman world; a map, a timeline, and an index of scripture
passages make the sourcebook the perfect companion text for
studying Paul and his letters.
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The Bible has profoundly influenced the western world. Many of its
characters and stories are well known and yet, oddly enough, wide
swaths of the Bible are unknown and misunderstood. The laws and
teaching contained within it have shaped contemporary thinking and
jurisprudence in ways many do not realise. Equally important, two
of the world's largest religions-Judaism and Christianity-consider
the Hebrew Bible to be sacred and to contain enduring truths about
beginnings and creation, life and death, the world, and what it
means to be human. This introduction will introduce beginners to
the Bible with simplicity and precision, in an engaging manner. It
will provide a quick overview of the issues related to reading and
studying the Bible as an academic discipline while simultaneously
illustrating the importance of the Bible for religion, western
jurisprudence, ethics, and contemporary conceptions of the family,
morality, and even politics.
The New Testament book of Romans has played an important role in
the life of the church from the period of the early church and
through to the present day. In this concise survey of the major
theological changes associated with Paul's letter, Mark Reasoner
focuses on its history and interpretation, particularly through the
works of Origen, Augustine, the medieval exegetes, Luther, and
Barth. In so doing, he reveals that by a circuitous route, western
Christians in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries are
returning to reading Romans in ways very similar to Origen's
concerns in the third century. This is true particularly in regard
to issues of the human will, sensitivity to Jews and Judaism,
openness to the possibility of universalism, and a deconstructive
reading of the obedience to government passage in Romans 13. Thus,
in addition to giving a helpful overview of Romans itself, this
book will help readers situate their theological questions within
the two thousand-year history of conversations about Paul's letter
to Roman believers.
In recent years the New Testament writings have increasingly been
read in the cultural and political context of the early Roman
Empire. In Roman Imperial Texts, students and scholars now have a
ready handbook of the most important sources for this context. A
selection of the most important sources for the cultural and
political context of the early Roman Empire and the New Testament
writings, Roman Imperial Texts includes freshly translated public
speeches, official inscriptions, annals, essays, poems, and
documents of veiled protest from the Empire's subject peoples.
This 1999 book situates Romans 14.1-15.13 in the context of
first-century Roman thought, using the lenses of asceticism
(especially vegetarianism), superstition and obligation. It also
seeks to situate this section of Romans within the letter as a
whole, and concludes by arguing that the section illustrates the
theme, or primary topos, of the letter: that Paul, his gospel, and
those who follow it are not shameful. Contributions to Romans
research surface where this book examines the terms 'strong' and
'weak' in light of their use within Roman social discourse;
identifies the Roman social value of obligation throughout the
letter as a key element both within Paul's self-understanding and
in his ethical teaching; raises previously unrecognized
implications of the letter's occasional nature for how we read and
use Romans; and traces the topos of not being ashamed through the
letter and back to its roots in the LXX.
This book situates Romans 14.1-15.13 in the context of first-century Roman thought, from the perspective of asceticism (especially vegetarianism), superstition, and obligation. It seeks to situate this section of Romans within the letter as a whole, and concludes that the section illustrates the theme of the letter: that Paul, his gospel, and those who follow it are not shameful. New contributions to Romans research surface through a fresh examination of the terms "strong" and "weak" in light of their use within Roman social discourse.
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