Making sense in (and of) the first Christian century /
Downing, Francis Gerald
Making sense in (and of) the first Christian century / F. Gerald Downing - New Delhi : Bloomsbury, 2025 - 268pages ; 24 cm. - Journal for the study of the New Testament, 197 .
The first Christian century must be approached with careful attention to its cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. It should not simply be assumed that this past 'is a different place, they do things differently there'. Downing treats the ways in which early Christians tried to 'make things make sense' within their cultures, noting both the similarities and differences between their ways and contemporary ones and stressing the variety of contexts and influences on first-century communication. Downing brings his renowned expertise to bear in illuminating the cultural features of early Christian society with a range of fascinating and telling examples 1. "Honour" among exegetes
2. Persons in relation
3. Forgiveness? Of Forgiveness? Or the remission of offences?
4. The ambiguity of "The Pharisee and the toll collector" (Luke 18.9-14) in the Graeco-Roman world of late antiquity
5. The woman from Syrophoenicia, and her doggedness: Mark 7.24-31 (Matthew 15.21-28)
6. Deeper reflections on the Jewish cynic Jesus
7. Cynics and Christians, Oedipus and Thyestes
8. Exile in formative Judaism
9. Common strands in pagan, Jewish and Christian eschatologies in the first Christian centuries
10. Ontological asymmetry in Philo, and christological realism in Paul, Hebrews and John
11. Magic and scepticism in and around the first Christian century
12. Interpretation and the "culture gap"
13. Reflecting in the first Christian century: 1 Corinthians 13.12
9789369529445
Bible. --Criticism, interpretation, etc--Gospels
Bible. --New Testament
Christianity
Church history --ca. 30-600--Primitive and early church,
Christianity and other religions-- Greek
Eschatology
270.1 / DOW 1
Making sense in (and of) the first Christian century / F. Gerald Downing - New Delhi : Bloomsbury, 2025 - 268pages ; 24 cm. - Journal for the study of the New Testament, 197 .
The first Christian century must be approached with careful attention to its cultural and linguistic heterogeneity. It should not simply be assumed that this past 'is a different place, they do things differently there'. Downing treats the ways in which early Christians tried to 'make things make sense' within their cultures, noting both the similarities and differences between their ways and contemporary ones and stressing the variety of contexts and influences on first-century communication. Downing brings his renowned expertise to bear in illuminating the cultural features of early Christian society with a range of fascinating and telling examples 1. "Honour" among exegetes
2. Persons in relation
3. Forgiveness? Of Forgiveness? Or the remission of offences?
4. The ambiguity of "The Pharisee and the toll collector" (Luke 18.9-14) in the Graeco-Roman world of late antiquity
5. The woman from Syrophoenicia, and her doggedness: Mark 7.24-31 (Matthew 15.21-28)
6. Deeper reflections on the Jewish cynic Jesus
7. Cynics and Christians, Oedipus and Thyestes
8. Exile in formative Judaism
9. Common strands in pagan, Jewish and Christian eschatologies in the first Christian centuries
10. Ontological asymmetry in Philo, and christological realism in Paul, Hebrews and John
11. Magic and scepticism in and around the first Christian century
12. Interpretation and the "culture gap"
13. Reflecting in the first Christian century: 1 Corinthians 13.12
9789369529445
Bible. --Criticism, interpretation, etc--Gospels
Bible. --New Testament
Christianity
Church history --ca. 30-600--Primitive and early church,
Christianity and other religions-- Greek
Eschatology
270.1 / DOW 1