Reconstructing Honor in Roman Philippi - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reconstructing Honor in Roman Philippi write by Joseph H. Hellerman. This book was released on 2005-06-30. Reconstructing Honor in Roman Philippi available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Reading Philippians
Reading Philippians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading Philippians write by Nijay K. Gupta. This book was released on 2020-02-10. Reading Philippians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this new introduction and guide to Paul’s Letter to the Philippians, Nijay K. Gupta makes the background, messages, and theological importance of this text understandable and interesting to lay readers and students. Reading Philippians includes Gupta’s own English translation of Philippians. In his discussion of the value and significance of this text for Christians today, he incorporates fascinating historical case studies, modern analogies from pop culture, and practical advice and exercises for Christian formation for today.
Christ’s Enthronement at God’s Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context
Christ’s Enthronement at God’s Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Christ’s Enthronement at God’s Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context write by D. Clint Burnett. This book was released on 2021-01-18. Christ’s Enthronement at God’s Right Hand and Its Greco-Roman Cultural Context available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Given the dearth of non-messianic interpretations of Psalm 110:1 in non-Christian Second Temple Jewish texts, why did it become such a widely used messianic prooftext in the New Testament and early Christianity? Previous attempts to answer this question have focused on why the earliest Christians first began to use Ps 110:1. The result is that these proposals do not provide an adequate explanation for why first century Christians living in the Greek East employed the verse and also applied it to Jesus’s exaltation. I contend that two Greco-Roman politico-religious practices, royal and imperial temple and throne sharing—which were cross-cultural rewards that Greco-Roman communities bestowed on beneficent, pious, and divinely approved rulers—contributed to the widespread use of Ps 110:1 in earliest Christianity. This means that the earliest Christians interpreted Jesus’s heavenly session as messianic and thus political, as well as religious, in nature.
Paul: Servant of the New Covenant
Paul: Servant of the New Covenant - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Paul: Servant of the New Covenant write by Scott J. Hafemann. This book was released on 2020-01-07. Paul: Servant of the New Covenant available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Taking 2 Cor 3:6 as its starting point, the new and updated essays here assembled investigate the key passages in Romans, 1-2 Corinthians, Galatians, and Philippians in which the covenant content and eschatological context of Paul's theology interpret one another. Developed over thirty years, Scott Hafemann's close reading of Paul's arguments, with an eye toward their OT/Jewish milieu, also advances the larger thesis that the various Israel/church, works/faith, and justification/judgment polarities in Paul's thinking do not represent a material contrast between a "law-way" and a "gospel-way" of relating to God. Rather, they epitomize an eschatological contrast between the character of God's people within the two eras of salvation history in which, by virtue of the Messiah and the Spirit, the Torah of the "old covenant" is now being kept in the "new."
Philippians
Philippians - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Philippians write by Michael F. Bird. This book was released on 2020-05-07. Philippians available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Showcases integration of multiple methods as well as reflections on the reception of Philippians and its meaning for today.
