商品簡介
This is the first of three volumes collectively titled Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Context. The three volumes will appear in two different series: v.1 and v.2 in TENTS (Texts and Editions for New Testament Study); and v.3, because of its focus on language, in LBS (Linguistic Biblical Studies). Editors Porter and Pitts are both affiliated with McMaster Divinity College, Canada. Twenty-five contributions are arranged in sections on Greco-Roman social contexts for Christian origins, and Greco-Roman literary contexts for Christian origins. Authors were invited to fully develop their topics, and many of the articles are 30 pages are more. A sampling of topics: manuscripts, scribes, and book production; reconstructing early Christianity from papyrological evidence; space, movement, and morality in the Roman Empire; Luke as a Hellenistic historian; letter openings in Paul and Plato; and exegetical practices in Justin and Galen. Indexing is by modern authors and by ancient sources. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
作者簡介
Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President and Dean, and Professor of New Testament, at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes, and articles in the field of New Testament studies and related disciplines, including Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory (2011).Andrew W. Pitts is a Ph.D. candidate in Christian Theology at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and has published articles in journals such as JBL, JGRChJ and CBR, as well as a number of chapters in edited volumes.