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Into all the world : emergent Christianity in its Jewish and Greco-Roman context
Title
Into all the world : emergent Christianity in its Jewish and Greco-Roman context / edited by Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs.
ISBN
9780802875150
0802875157
Publication
Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2017.
Copyright Notice Date
©2017
Physical Description
xxii, 403 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
Summary
Into All the World -- the third volume from editors Mark Harding and Alanna Nobbs on the content and social setting of the New Testament -- brings together a team of eminent Australian scholars in ancient history, New Testament, and the early church to take the story of Christianity into the Jewish and Greco- Roman world of the first century.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 30, 2017
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Retrospective :
The interaction between ancient historians and New Testament scholars : a critical appraisal / Alanna Nobbs
The Spread of Christianity to AD 100 :
1. The Acts of the Apostles as a source for studying early Christianity / Chris Forbes
2. The Johannine purpose and outline / Johan Ferreira
3. Unity and diversity in early Christianity / Bradley J. Bitner
4. "Not as the gentiles" : the ethics of the earliest Christians / David Starling
Christians among Jews :
5. Jewish Christianity to AD 100 / Paul McKechnie
6. "The parting of the ways" / Lydia Gore-Johes and Stephen Llewelyn
7. The letter to the Hebrews / Ian K. Smith
8. Christians and Jews in Antioch / Edward Bridge
Christians among Romans :
9. Divine cultic activities and the early church / Bruce W. Winter
10. The persecution of Christians from Nero to Hadrian / James R. Harrison
11. Aliens and strangers : minority group rhetoric in the later New Testament writings / Timothy MacBride
12. The book of Revelation : a call to worship, witness, and wait in the midst of violence / Murray J. Smith
13. Roman political ideology and the authority of First Clement / L. L. Welborn
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