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100			_aDowning, Francis Gerald
245			_aMaking sense in (and of) the first Christian century / _cF. Gerald Downing
260			_aNew Delhi : _bBloomsbury, _c2025
300			_a268pages ; _c24 cm.
490			_aJournal for the study of the New Testament, _v197
505			_aThe 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
505			_a1. "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
650			_aBible. _vGospels _xCriticism, interpretation, etc
650			_aBible. _vNew Testament
650			_aChristianity
650			_aChurch history _vPrimitive and early church, _yca. 30-600
650			_aChristianity and other religions _v Greek
650			_aEschatology
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