Contributions

  • Holladay, Carl R., editor - Contributor
  • Fitzgerald, John T., 1948- editor - Contributor
  • Thompson, James W. (James Weldon), 1942- editor - Contributor
  • Sterling, Gregory E., editor - Contributor

Publication

2014 - Brill, Leiden, Netherlands

Language

English

Word Count

278,250 words, Guess

Page Count

1,113 pages

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC227/.06
  • LCCBS2650.52 .M26 2014

Alternate Titles

  • Hellenistic philosophy and early Christianity

Description

Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the "background" against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse intellectual traditions that interacted within specific social contexts. These essays, spanning over fifty years, illustrate Malherbe's appreciation of the complexities of this ecology and what is required to explore philological and conceptual connections between early Christian writers, especially Paul and Athenagoras, and their literary counterparts who participated in the religious and philosophical discourse of the wider culture. Malherbe's essays laid the groundwork for the magisterial commentary on the Thessalonian correspondence and launched the contemporary study of Hellenistic moral philosophy and early Christianity. (provided by publisher).

Subjects

Series Statement

  • Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- volume 150

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