Early Christian Ethics in Interaction With Jewish and Greco-roman Contexts

Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts focuses upon the nexus of early Christian Ethics and its contexts as a dynamic process. The ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman or early Christian traditions as well as with the social-historical context at large continuously transformed early Christian ethics. The volume proposes a dynamic model for studying culture and its various expressions in a society composed of several ethnic and religious groups. The contributions focus on specific transformations of ethics in key documents of early Christianity, or take a more comparative perspective pointing to similar developments and overlaps as well as particularities within early Christian writings, Hellenistic-Jewish writings, Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish inscriptions.

Jan Willem van Henten, PhD Leiden (1986), is Professor of New Testament and Director of the Graduate School for Humanities at the University of Amsterdam. He has published widely on Hellenistic Judaism and the contexts of New Testament writings, including Coping with Violence in the New Testament (Leiden: Brill, 2012, edited with P. DeVilliers). Joseph Verheyden. PhD Leuven (1987), is Professor of New Testament Studies, at the Catholic University of Leuven. He has published widely in the field of New Testament and Early Christian studies. Recent publications include Ancient Christian Interpretations of "Violent Texts" in the Apocalypse (Gottingen, 2011, edited with T. Nicklas and A. Merkt) and Patristic and Text-critical Studies. The Collected Essays of William L. Petersen (Leiden: Brill, 2012, edited with J. Krans).