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Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World

1 Corinthians in its Greco-Roman Social Setting

By: Mark T. Finney

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Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World

1 Corinthians in its Greco-Roman Social Setting

By: Mark T. Finney

In this volume, Finney argues that the conflict in 1 Corinthians is driven by lust for honour and Paul's use of the paradigm of the cross. Studies in contemporary social anthropology have noted the importance of male honour and how this is able to generate ideas of social identity within a community and to elucidate patterns of social behaviour. Finney examines the letter of 1 Corinthians , which presents a unique expose of numerous aspects of social life in the first-century Greco-Roman world where honour was of central importance. At the same time, filotimia (the love and lust for honour) also had the capacity to generate an environment of competition, antagonism, factionalism, and conflict, all of which are clearly evident within the pages of 1 Corinthians . Finney seeks to examine the extent to which the social constraints of filotimia, and its potential for conflict, lay behind the many problems evident within the nascent Christ-movement at Corinth. Finney presents a fresh reading of the letter, and the thesis it proposes is that the honour-conflict model, hitherto overlooked in studies on 1 Corinthians , provides an appropriate and compelling framework within which to view the many disparate aspects of the letter in their social context. Formerly the Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement , this is a book series that explores the many aspects of New Testament study including historical perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural and contextual approaches.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567386791

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9780567386793

Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife

Body and Soul in Antiquity, Judaism and Early Christianity

By: Mark Finney

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Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife

Body and Soul in Antiquity, Judaism and Early Christianity

By: Mark Finney

This book begins by arguing that early Greek reflection on the afterlife and immortality insisted on the importance of the physical body whereas a wealth of Jewish texts from the Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism and early (Pauline) Christianity understood post-mortem existence to be that of the soul alone. Changes begin to appear in the later New Testament where the importance of the afterlife of the physical body became essential, and such thoughts continued into the period of the early Church where the significance of the physical body in post-mortem existence became a point of theological orthodoxy. This book will assert that the influx of Greco-Romans into the early Church changed the direction of Christian thought towards one which included the body. At the same time, the ideological and polemical thrust of an eternal tortuous afterlife for the wicked became essential.

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Routledge

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131723636X

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9781317236368

Freddy and Fredericka

By: Mark Helprin

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Freddy and Fredericka

By: Mark Helprin

A New York Times bestseller by Mark Helprin, author of Winter's Tale, which is now a major motion picture starring Colin Farrell, Jessica Brown Findlay, Russell Crowe, William Hurt, and Jennifer Connelly “Freddy and Fredericka is a vast, sprawling book of Homeric proportions and design in which Helprin exploits to the fullest his powers of invention as well as a lesser known talent for comedy.” —Bookreporter.com Mark Helprin’s legions of devoted readers cherish his timeless novels and short stories, which are uplifting in their conviction of the goodness and resilience of the human spirit. Freddy and Fredericka—a brilliantly refashioned fairy tale and a magnificently funny farce—only seems like a radical departure of form, for behind the laughter, Helprin speaks of leaps of faith and second chances, courage and the primacy of love. Helprin’s latest work, an extraordinarily funny allegory about a most peculiar British royal family, is immensely mocking of contemporary monarchy and yet deeply sympathetic to the individuals caught in its lonely absurdities.

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Penguin

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1101201177

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9781101201176

Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World

1 Corinthians in its Greco-Roman Social Setting

By: Mark T. Finney

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1 Corinthians in its Greco-Roman Social Setting

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Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World

Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World

Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife

Resurrection, Hell and the Afterlife

Freddy and Fredericka

Freddy and Fredericka

Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World

Honour and Conflict in the Ancient World

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