Conflict And Identity In Romans

Author : Philip Francis Esler
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451416077
Total Pages : 478 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Conflict and Identity in Romans written by Philip Francis Esler and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on 2003-11-07 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the purpose of Paul's letter to the Romans? Esler provides an illuminating analysis of this epistle, employing social-scientific methods along with epigraphy and archaeology. His conclusion is that the apostle Paul was attempting to facilitate the resolution of intergroup conflict among the Christ-followers of Rome, especially between Judeans and non-Judeans, and to establish a new identity for them by developing a form of group categorization that subsumes the various groups into a new entity.

Author : A. Andrew Das
Publisher : Fortress Press
ISBN 13 : 9781451403367
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Solving the Romans Debate written by A. Andrew Das and published by Fortress Press. This book was released on with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * A fresh and thorough new reading of the situation prompting Paul's most important and puzzling letter

Author : Ben Witherington III
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780802845047
Total Pages : 464 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul's Letter to the Romans written by Ben Witherington III and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2004-03-02 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Witherington gleans fresh insights from reading the text of Paul's epistle in light of early Jewish theology, the historical situation of Rome in the middle of first century A.D., and Paul's own rhetorical concerns.

Author : Jae Hyun Lee
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9047443934
Total Pages : 596 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul's Gospel in Romans written by Jae Hyun Lee and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Using linguistic discourse analysis, this book offers a fresh approach to Paul's gospel in Romans 1-8 and provides a comprehensive understanding of his argumentative structure and subject matter including the central points of Paul's gospel.

Author : Susann M. Liubinskas
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1532652127
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Ethnographic Character of Romans written by Susann M. Liubinskas and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work Susann Liubinskas provides a coherent reading of Paul’s letter to the Romans in light of ancient ethnography. Paul, like his contemporaries, harnesses the apologetic power of this genre in order to fortify the members of the Roman house churches to maintain their distinctiveness by arguing for the historical legitimacy of the Christ movement’s laws, customs, and way of life. When the law-faith dichotomy is considered within the larger context of Paul’s ethnic discourse, its primary function as the means by which Paul draws lines of continuity and discontinuity between the Christ-movement and its venerable Jewish roots comes to light. Rather than viewing Paul as dealing with two different religions, we see Paul working to position believing Jews and Gentiles in relationship to Israel’s history with God, particularly as its finds its climax in Jesus Christ. Thus, Paul utilizes the law-faith dichotomy, not to describe two paths of salvation, but to redefine the people of God, in the new age, as ethnically inclusive.

Author : Aaron Ricker
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567693996
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient Letters and the Purpose of Romans written by Aaron Ricker and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2020-09-17 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Aaron Ricker locates the purpose of Romans in its function as a tool of community identity definition. Ricker employs a comparative analysis of the ways in which community identity definition is performed in first-century association culture, including several ancient network letters comparable to Romans. Ricker's examination of the community advice found in Rom 12-15 reveals in this new context an ancient example of the ways in which an inscribed addressee community can be invited in a letter to see and comport itself as a “proper” association network community. The ideal community addressed in the letter to the Romans is defined as properly unified and orderly, as well accommodating to – and clearly distinct from – cultures “outside.” Finally, it is defined as linked to a proper network with recognised leadership (i.e., the inscribed Paul of the letter and his network). Paul's letter to the Romans is in many ways a baffling and extraordinary document. In terms of its community-defining functions and strategies, however, Ricker shows its purpose to be perfectly clear and understandable.

Author : Susan Mathew
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567175464
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Women in the Greetings of Romans 16.1-16 written by Susan Mathew and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2013-02-28 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Susan Mathew examines the structures of mutuality in Romans, to shed light on the issue of women's leadership in Pauline theology. Mathew begins by analyzing the general form of greetings in the Pauline letters, to shed light on the specific form of the greetings in Rom 16.1-16. Mathew then couples this with analysis of the leadership of women in the Greco-Roman world showing that women's leadership roles in the Pauline churches were part of this wider culture. This provides a basis from which to show that the women named in Romans 16.1-16, display Paul's acknowledgment of some women associates, and point to relationships of mutuality in the greetings. A study of Romans 12-13 helps to apprehend the model of mutuality exemplified in the greetings. Finally, the contextual application of mutuality in the community as mutual welcoming and mutual up-building (Romans 14-15) is brought into focus. This enables Mathew to draw together the strands of the Pauline ethos of mutuality, which encourages the leadership roles of women in the greetings at the end of Romans.

Author : Saskia T. Roselaar
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004229116
Total Pages : 415 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Processes of Integration and Identity Formation in the Roman Republic written by Saskia T. Roselaar and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2012-05-07 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on day-to-day interactions between Romans and Italians interacted, and the consequences of such interactions. Drawing on new archaeological evidence, literary and epigraphic material, it presents the current state of research on integration and identity formation in the Republic.

Author : UnChan Jung
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110742446
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Tale of Two Churches written by UnChan Jung and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-07 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though a majority of commentators have admitted or naturally assumed that there were many divergences amongst the Pauline churches, many tend to concentrate on similarities more than dissimilarities (contra John M. G. Barclay; Craig de Vos). Especially, the previous scholarly treatments of divergences in the Pauline churches have shed little light on certain areas of study, in particular the early Christians’ socio-economic status. The thesis, therefore, underlines the conspicuous differences between the Thessalonian and Corinthian congregations concerning their socio-economic compositions, social relationships, and further social identities, while extrapolating certain circles of causality between them through socio-economic and social-scientific criticism. This study concludes Paul’s teachings of grace, community, and ethics were manifested and modified in different communities in different ways because of these different socio-economic contexts.

Author : Jussi Rantala
Publisher : Amsterdam University Press
ISBN 13 : 9048540097
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Gender, Memory, and Identity in the Roman World written by Jussi Rantala and published by Amsterdam University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-18 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume approaches three key concepts in Roman history - gender, memory and identity - and demonstrates the significance of their interaction in all social levels and during all periods of Imperial Rome. When societies, as well as individuals, form their identities, remembrance and references to the past play a significant role. The aim of this volume is to cast light on the constructing and the maintaining of both public and private identities in the Roman Empire through memory, and to highlight, in particular, the role of gender in that process. While approaching this subject, the contributors to this volume scrutinise both the literature and material sources, pointing out how widespread the close relationship between gender, memory and identity was. A major aim of this volume as a whole is to point out the significance of the interaction between these three concepts in both the upper and lower levels of Roman society, and how it remained an important question through the period from Augustus right into Late Antiquity.