New Testament Among the Writings of Antiquity

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A&C Black, 1 iul. 1998 - 324 pagini
In this useful work, Dormeyer assesses the influence of Hellenistic culture upon the New Testament as a literary work. There is no denying the impact of Jewish literature upon the New Testament, but even those Jewish antecedents were themselves not infrequently imprinted with Hellenistic characteristics. Dormeyer's method is to consider in turn the literary forms (Gattungen) of the New Testament, outlining with many examples the parallels between the New Testament and Hellenistic literature. The Synoptic sayings, for instance, are closest in character to the Hellenistic gnome, though the representation of Jesus as an eschatological and prophetic wisdom teacher shows a marked difference from other teachers of wisdom in Hellenistic circles. Other areas of close correspondence with Hellenistic literature lie in the form and rhetoric of the New Testament epistles, and in the structure of the Gospels, which invoke the canons of Hellenistic historiography and biography. Throughout, Dormeyer is at pains to stress the contours of the special quality of the New Testament literature as the product of a quite small community that nevertheless brought into being a number of authors of exceptional talent.

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Preface to the English Edition
9
Chapter 1
17
Chapter 2
26
Transmission Collection and Canonization of the Hebrew
34
TO BIBLICAL LITERATURE
40
Chapter 8
41
Orality and Writtenness in Classical Prose
47
The New Testament Letters
51
Christian Imagery and Narrative Language
68
Chapter 5
83
Chapter 6
141
Chapter 7
154
Chapter 9
205
Chapter 11
246
Conclusion
256
Index of References
308

The Publicity Internationality and Multilingual Nature
55
Narrative Books of the New Testament
59
The Function of Biblical Literature
61

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Despre autor (1998)

Detlev Dormeyer is Professor of Biblical Theology, Department of Theology, University of Dortmund.

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