Grace, Reconciliation, Concord: The Death of Christ in Greco-Roman Metaphors
Cilliers Breytenbach
How did the first Christians interpret the death of Christ? The answer lies within the earliest Christian documents, primarily within the Pauline letters. Before the users of a modern language could hope to come near an adequate description of what was expressed in these Greek texts of the first Christians, they have to deconstruct layers of later dogmatic interpretation. They need to keep to descriptive terminology reflecting the Greek of the sources and to trace the origin of the metaphoric language early Christians like Paul used. This volume sets out to construct some of the Jewish and Greco-Roman patterns of thought which were initially utilised to express the meaning of the death of Christ.
Kategorije:
Godina:
2010
Izdavač:
Brill
Jezik:
english
Strane:
383
ISBN 10:
9004186085
ISBN 13:
9789004186088
Serije:
Supplements to Novum Testamentum
Fajl:
PDF, 1.84 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2010