David G. Horrell

Edward Adams

First Corinthians provides a unique glimpse info the life of a young Christian community in a Greco-Roman environment during the early decades of emerging Christianity. It supplies a range and richness of information about the early church that is unparalleled by any other New Testament document. Much effort has gone into reconstructing Christianity at Corinth; more recently, attention has focused on the Corinthian community itself. The scholarly picture of the Corinthian Christians throughout the period of modern interpretation has been far from constant, and their profile has altered as interpretive fashions have shifted. This collection of classic and new essays charts the history of the scholarly quest for the Corinthian church from F. C. Baur to the present day, and offers the reflections of leading scholars on where the quest has taken us and its future direction.

The Quest for the Pauline Church

Christianity at Corinth

An Introduction to the Study of Paul (T&T Clark Approaches to Biblical Studies)

A Contemporary Reading of Paul's Ethics

Solidarity and Difference

An introduction to the study of Paul

towards a critical ecological biblical theology

The Bible and the environment

This tried and tested introduction to Paul needs little introduction of its own. After considering Paul's importance and influence, and the important sources for the study of Paul, the volume covers the following key topics: the earliest period of Christianity - from Jesus to Paul; Paul's life before and after his 'conversion'; his individual letters; the major elements of his theology; his attitude to Israel and the Jewish law; perspectives on the Pauline assemblies, including their socio-economic location, meeting places, and attitudes towards women; and Paul's legacy in the New Testament and beyond. The volume has been revised throughout and fully updated with respect to bibliography, and to presenting the latest debates surrounding Paul's thought in a manageable format - including those around 'old' and 'new' perspectives, with a new section on the 'radical' new Jewish perspective, and those related to the socio-economic status and character of the Pauline assemblies. The helpful study questions and reading lists have also been revised.

An Introduction to the Study of Paul

The first letter of Peter remains a relatively neglected corner of the New Testament: the number of monographs devoted to it is tiny, compared with those on the Gospels and Pauline letters. Yet it is a text - so this book argues - that offers much insight into crucial processes in the development of Christian identity. In particular, 1 Peter illustrates with particular clarity the complex ways in which Christian identity was forged from Jewish traditions and negotiated in the generally hostile Roman empire. As such, studies of this particular letter illuminate central themes in the making of Christianity in the earliest centuries. "Becoming Christian" is a collection of essays that treat various facets of the first letter of Peter, in its social and historical setting, in some cases using new social-scientific and postcolonial methods to shed light on the ways in which the letter contributes to the making of Christian identity. At the heart of the book are chapters 5-7, which examine the contribution of 1 Peter to the construction of Christian identity, the persecution and suffering of Christians in Asia Minor, the significance of the name 'Christian', and the response of the letter to the hostility encountered by Christians in society. There are no recent books which bring together such a wealth of information and analysis of this crucial early Christian text. "Becoming Christian" has developed out of Horrell's ongoing research for the International Critical Commentary on 1 Peter. Together these essays will offer a series of significant and original engagements with this letter, and a resource for studies of 1 Peter for some time to come.

Essays on 1 Peter and the Making of Christian Identity

Becoming Christian

The biblical and Christian traditions have long been seen to have legitimated and encouraged humanity's aggressive domination of nature. Biblical visions of the future, with destruction for the earth and rescue for the elect, have also discouraged any concern for the earth's future or the welfare of future generations. But we now live in a time when environmental issues are at the centre of political and ethical debate. What is needed is a new reading of the biblical tradition that can meet the challenges of the ecological issues that face humanity at the beginning of the third millennium. 'The Bible and the Environment' examines a range of biblical texts - from Genesis to Revelation - evaluating competing interpretations. The Bible provides a thoroughly ambivalent legacy. Certainly, it cannot provide straightforward teaching on care for the environment but nor can it simply be seen as an anti-ecological book. Developing an 'ecological hermeneutic' as a way of mediating between contemporary concerns and the biblical text, 'The Bible and the Environment' presents a way of productively reading the Bible in the context of contemporary ecology.

Towards a Critical Ecological Biblical Theology

The Bible and the Environment

Some of today’s problematic ideologies of racial and religious difference can be traced back to constructions of the relationship between Judaism and early Christianity. New Testament studies, which developed contemporaneously with Europe’s colonial expansion and racial ideologies, is, David Horrell argues, therefore an important site at which to probe critically these ideological constructions and their contemporary implications. In Ethnicity and Inclusion, Horrell explores the ways in which “ethnic” (and “religious”) characteristics feature in key Jewish and early Christian texts, challenging the widely accepted dichotomy between a Judaism that is ethnically defined and a Christianity that is open and inclusive. Then, through an engagement with whiteness studies, he offers a critique of the implicit whiteness and Christianness that continue to dominate New Testament studies today, arguing that a diversity of embodied perspectives is epistemologically necessary.

Religion, Race, and Whiteness in Constructions of Jewish and Christian Identities

Ethnicity and Inclusion

An exemplary study, focussing on the Corinthian correspondence, of the social ethos of early Christian teaching and its development.

Interests and Ideology from 1 Corinthians to 1 Clement

The Social Ethos of the Corinthian Correspondence

Petra von Gemünden

Max Küchler

Ausgesprochen groß ist das Interessenspektrum von Gerd Theißen. In seinen Lehrveranstaltungen und Publikationen hat er Studierende an diesem Teil haben lassen und auch seinen weiteren Leserinnen und Lesern einen weiten Horizont eröffnet. Im Austausch mit vielen anderen Disziplinen legt Theißen in kreativer, die theologische Forschung befruchtender Weise das Neue Testament aus und überwindet kompetent und impulsgebend die Grenzen der neutestamentlichen Disziplin hin zur Praktischen Theologie und zur Systematik. Die hier versammelten Studien zu Jesus sind eine Festgabe zu Gerd Theißens 70. Geburtstag. Die Frage nach Jesus, seiner Gestalt und seinen Gestaltungen – eines der Kernthemen neutestamentlicher Wissenschaft – hat Gerd Theißen ein Leben lang beschäftigt. Dieses Forschungsinteresse nehmen in diesem Band 32 internationale Autorinnen und Autoren auf, die mit Gerd Theißen wissenschaftlich und persönlich verbunden sind. In methodischer Vielfalt wenden sie sich in ihren Beiträgen der historischen Gestalt Jesu und deren Rezeptionen in Wissenschaft, Kirche und Gesellschaft zu. Mit Beiträgen von D. Álvarez Cineira, V. Balabanski, P. Balla, S. Byrskog, I. Czachesz, M. Ebner, Ph.F. Esler, P. von Gemünden, C. Grappe, G. Guttenberger, C. Hezser, R. Hochschild, B. Holmberg, T. Holmén, D.G. Horrell, M. Konradt, M. Küchler, P. Lampe, U. Luz, H.O. Maier, D. Marguerat, H. Meisinger, A. Merz, R. Morgan, H. Moxnes, B. Mutschler, M. Myllykoski, T. Onuki, H. Roose, W. Stegemann, Ch. Strecker und D. Winter.

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