Rhetoric, History, and Theology

Todd D. Still; Jason A. Myers

doi:10.5771/9781978709737

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The subjects of rhetoric, history, and theology intersect in unique ways within New Testament and early Christian literature. The contributors of this volume represent a wide range of perspectives but share a common interest in the interpretation of these texts in light of their rhetorical, historical, and theological elements. What results is a fresh and perceptive reading of the New Testament and early Christianity literature.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-0972-0
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-0973-7
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 336
Product type: Edited Book

1. Dedication No access
2. Contents No access
3. List of Tables No access
4. Editors’ Preface No access
1. Divine Self-Revealing in the Ancestral Narratives of Genesis No access
2. The Book of Exodus and the Sinai Appearance of Yhwh No access
3. Implications for Our Understanding of Revelation and Scripture No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. The Counter-Cultural Jesus No access
2. Women and Ministry No access
3. The Type-Scene of Hospitality No access
4. Good Samaritan and Not-So-Good Householder No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Far Fewer Things Happen in John No access
  2. John’s Gospel Has a Jerusalem Focus No access
  3. John’s Gospel Has a Well-Defined Plot No access
  4. Jesus in John’s Gospel Speaks in Ways That Are Both Similar to and Different from the Synoptic Gospels No access
  5. Jesus Is Unequivocally God No access
2. Why Is John Different? No access
3. 1. Who Is Jesus? No access
  2. What Does Jesus Do? No access
  3. How Can Jesus Do These Things? No access
  4. How Does Jesus Do These Things? No access
  5. The Key to It All Is Love No access
4. John’s Gospel as the Gospel of Love No access
5. Outlines of the Story of God’s Love in John’s Gospel No access
6. Concluding Reflections No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Revelation and John’s Literary Drama No access
2. Revelation and John’s Reader No access
3. Revelation and John’s Promise No access
4. Revelation and John’s Experience No access
5. Summary No access
6. Theological Implications No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Mutual Love between the Father and the Son No access
2. The Son Honors the Father No access
3. Caring for Parents No access
4. Punishments and Rewards No access
5. The Son Obeys His Father No access
6. The Son Imitates His Father No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Rewriting the “Saecular” Ideology No access
2. Rewriting “Saecular” Geography No access
3. Luke’s Ongoing Challenge in Regard to Story and Mission No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. Status Question Is on the Origin of the Household Codes No access
2. The Reception of Aristotle in Antiquity and David L. Balch’s Reconstruction of Aristotle’s Topos of Household Management as the Origin of the Household Codes No access
3. 1 Corinthians 7: An Early Christian Engagement with Aristotle’s Topos of Household Management? No access
4. Political Rule among Equals, and Two Views on Marital Rule No access
5. 1. The Origin and Function of the Household Codes Reexamined No access
6. Conclusion No access
7. Notes No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. 1. Διάκονος No access
  2. Προστάτις No access
3. 1. Lector No access
4. Phoebe as Honored ἀδελφή No access
5. The Sibling Relationship in the Ancient World No access
6. Sibling and Kinship Language among Early Christians No access
7. 1. General Respect No access
  2. Commendation of Messenger/Proxy No access
8. “Sister” Phoebe No access
9. Conclusion No access
10. Notes No access
11. Bibliography No access
1. One Word No access
2. 1. Eusebeia in the PEs No access
3. 1 Timothy 2:2 No access
4. 1 Timothy 3:16 with 4:7–8 No access
5. 1 Timothy 5:4 No access
6. 1 Timothy 6:3, 5–6 No access
7. 1 Timothy 6:11 No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
10. Bibliography No access
1. What Happened to Timothy? No access
2. Evidence for Lystra No access
3. Evidence for Lycaonia No access
4. The Social History of the Rus/Urbs Divide No access
5. Rhetoric from the Rusticas: In Search of the Historical Timothy and Implications for the Rhetoric of 1–2 Timothy No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. 1. Synopsis No access
  2. Evaluation No access
3. 1. Synopsis No access
  2. Evaluation No access
4. 1. Synopsis No access
  2. 1. Problem with Using Roman Legal Texts No access
    2. Problem with Using the Letter of Pliny No access
    3. Problem of Distance and Time No access
    4. Problem of the Negative Portrayal of Philemon No access
5. 1. Synopsis No access
  2. Evaluation No access
6. 1. No Explicit Reference to Onesimus’s Flight No access
  2. 1. UPZ 121 (156 BCE) No access
    2. PSI 570 (252 BCE) No access
    3. Cicero, Ad Fam. 13.77.3 (46 BCE) No access
    4. P.Oxy. 1423 (fourth century CE) No access
  3. Summary No access
7. How Did Onesimus End Up with Paul? No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Notes No access
10. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Lexical Considerations No access
3. “The Good” in Romans No access
4. καλός in 1 Corinthians 7 No access
5. The Jerusalem Collection No access
6. “All the Good . . . in Christ” (Philemon 6): The Example of Philemon No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Notes No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. 1. Water and Blood as Baptism and Eucharist No access
  2. Water and Blood as the Baptism and Death of Jesus No access
  3. Water and Blood as Jesus’s Death No access
  4. Water and Blood as Jesus’s Birth No access
  5. Water of Birth and Blood of Death No access
3. 1. Proposition (5:6a) No access
  2. External Proof of Testimony: The Spirit (5:6b) No access
  3. External Proof of Testimony Amplified: The Holy Spirit, Water, and Blood (5:7–8) No access
4. Polemical Undertones No access
5. Conclusion No access
6. Notes No access
7. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. 1. Biblical Texts No access
  2. The Missing Temple No access
  3. The Royal Priesthood No access
3. Conclusion No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. 1. Greco-Roman Philosophers on the Virtue of Endurance No access
  2. Seneca’s Views on Endurance and Suicide No access
  3. Jewish Martyrs and the Virtue of Endurance No access
  4. The Hope of Resurrection in Romans 8 No access
3. 1. Greco-Roman Virtue of Courage No access
  2. Christian Expression of Courage in Martyrdom No access
  3. 1. Blandina’s Voice No access
    2. Blandina’s Endurance No access
    3. Blandina’s Representation of Christ No access
4. Conclusion No access
5. Notes No access
6. Bibliography No access
1. 1. 4Q521 The Messianic Psalm No access
2. Concluding Comments No access
3. Notes No access
4. Bibliography No access
Index of Scripture and Other Ancient Writings No access Pages 315 - 332
About the Contributors No access Pages 333 - 336