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Constructing early Christian families : family as social reality and metaphor / edited by Halvor Moxnes.
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9780203440490

9780415146388

9780415146395
Title:
Constructing early Christian families : family as social reality and metaphor / edited by Halvor Moxnes.
Author:
Moxnes, Halvor.
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xvi, 267 pages) : illustrations
Contents:
Introduction / Halvor Moxnes -- What is family? : problems in constructing early Christian families / Halvor Moxnes -- The family in first-century Galilee / Santiago Guijarro -- The family as the bearer of religion in Judaism and early Christianity / John M.G. Barclay -- The relativisation of family ties in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman traditions / Stephen C. Barton -- The Roman family : ideal and metaphor / Eva Marie Lassen -- Family imagery and Christian identity in Gal 5:13 to 6:10 / Philip F. Esler -- Equality within patriarchal structures : some New Testament perspectives on the Christian fellowship as a brother- or sisterhood and a family / Karl Olav Sandnes -- Brotherhood in Plutarch and Paul : its role and character / Reidar Aasgaard -- Brotherhood in Christ : a gender hermeneutical reading of 1 Thessalonians / Lone Fatum -- Paul without passion : on Paul's rejection of desire in sex and marriage / Dale B. Martin -- Asceticism and anti-familial language in the Gospel of Thomas / Risto Uro -- Family structures in Gnostic religion / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus.
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Publication Date:
1997
Publication Information:
London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.