Paul and the Emergence of Christian Textuality
Early Christian Literary Culture in Context. Collected Essays, Volume 1
by Margaret M. Mitchell
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(November 2017)
ISBN: 9783161546167
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The apostle Paul was the inaugurator of early Christian literary culture, not only through the writing of his own letters (ca. 50-62 CE) – which were to become surprisingly influential once collected and published after his death – but also through the successful propagation of a religious logic of mediated epiphanies of Christ, on the one hand, and of “synecdochical hermeneutics” of the gospel narrative about Christ, on the other. He set the precedent that the Christ-believing movements were to be rooted in texts and textual interpretation. Already in his own letters, Paul began a process of ongoing articulation and reinterpretation of the gospel narrative and the various means by which it could be replicated in each new generation and locale. This process was to continue through the letters written in his name, the Acts of the Apostles, and apostolic imitators and expositors in the centuries to come. These 15 essays by Margaret M. Mitchell are accompanied by an introduction that lays out thirteen propositions for the development of early Christian literary culture from its inception in the astounding claims of Paul, the self-styled “apostolic envoy of Jesus Christ crucified,” up through Constantine.
- By (author) Margaret M Mitchell
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Exegetische Studien zur paulinischen und johanneischen Theologie und Literatur
Volume 198
Metapher – Narratio – Mimesis – Doxologie
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Biblical Ethics and Application
Purview, Validity, and Relevance of Biblical Texts in Ethical Discourse. Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik/Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics. Band IX
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Jairus’s Daughter and the Haemorrhaging Woman
Tradition and Interpretation of an Early Christian Miracle Story
Jenseits von Indikativ und Imperativ
Kontexte und Normen neutestamentlicher Ethik / Contexts and Norms of New Testament Ethics. . Band I
Volume 238
Le Jour de Dieu – Der Tag Gottes
5. Symposium Strasbourg, Tubingen, Uppsala. 11.-13. September 2006 in Uppsala
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Paul and the Imperial Authorities at Thessalonica and Rome
A Study in the Conflict of Ideology
Volume 273
Doing Gender – Doing Religion
Fallstudien zur Intersektionalitat im fruhen Judentum, Christentum und Islam
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Reading the First Century
On Reading Josephus and Studying Jewish History of the First Century
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A Narrative Theology of the New Testament
Exploring the Metanarrative of Exile and Restoration
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Epochs and Styles
Selected Writings on the New Testament, Greek Language and Greek Culture in the Post-Classical Era
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