Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Part I Paul, Letters and Communities
- Part II The Pauline Letter Collection
- 4 The Thessalonian and Corinthian Letters
- 5 Galatians and Romans
- 6 Philippians and Philemon
- 7 Colossians and Ephesians
- 8 The Pastoral Epistles
- Part III Paul’s Theological Discourse
- Bibliography
- Index of Biblical and Ancient Writings
- Index of Modern Scholars
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
4 - The Thessalonian and Corinthian Letters
from Part II - The Pauline Letter Collection
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 June 2020
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Book contents
- The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul
- Cambridge Companions to Religion
- The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Map
- Contributors
- Abbreviations
- Part I Paul, Letters and Communities
- Part II The Pauline Letter Collection
- 4 The Thessalonian and Corinthian Letters
- 5 Galatians and Romans
- 6 Philippians and Philemon
- 7 Colossians and Ephesians
- 8 The Pastoral Epistles
- Part III Paul’s Theological Discourse
- Bibliography
- Index of Biblical and Ancient Writings
- Index of Modern Scholars
- Cambridge Companions to Religion (continued from page iii)
- References
Summary
This essay discusses the texts that, through their commonalities and differences, illustrate various ways in which early forms of Jesus-devotion were relating to their contexts within the Roman world and how Paul addressed particular issues that arose within those communities
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- The New Cambridge Companion to St. Paul , pp. 69 - 91Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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Further Reading
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Horsley, Richard A., ed. Paul and Empire: Religion and Power in Roman Imperial Society. Harrisburg, PA: Trinity Press, 1997.Google Scholar
Jewett, Robert. “Tenement Churches and Communal Meals in the Early Church.” Biblical Research 38 (1993): 23–43.Google Scholar
McNeel, Jennifer Houston. Paul as Infant and Nursing Mother: Metaphor, Rhetoric and Identity in 1 Thessalonians 2:5–8. Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, 2014.Google Scholar
Meeks, Wayne. The First Urban Christians: The Social World of the Apostle Paul. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1983.Google Scholar
Morris, Helen. “The City as Foil (Not Friend nor Foe): Conformity and Subversion in 1 Corinthians 12:12–31.” In The Urban World of the First Christians, edited by Walton, Steve, Trebilco, Paul R., and Gill, David W. J., 141–159. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2017.Google Scholar
Okland, Jorunn, Women in Their Place: Paul and the Corinthian Discourse of Gender and Sanctuary Space. London: T&T Clark, 2004.Google Scholar
Osiek, Carolyn and MacDonald, Margaret Y. (with Janet Tulloch). A Woman’s Place: House Churches in Earliest Christianity. Minneapolis, MN: Augsburg Fortress, 2006.Google Scholar
Thiselton, Anthony C. The First Epistle to the Corinthians. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2013.Google Scholar
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