This book seeks to do for the study of Paul and Stoicism what E. P. Sanders did for Paul and Judaism. Instead of making a brick-by-brick analysis, Troels Engberg Pedersen provides the first comprehensive building-to-building comparison of how the two religious/philosophical systems functioned. The book moves through the major letters of Paul (e.g., Philippians, Galatians, and Romans), carefully documenting Paul's indebtedness to Stoic thought.
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Troels Engberg-Pedersen is Professor of New Testament at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark. He is the author of Paul and the Stoics, winner of a 2001 Biblical Archaeology Society Publication Award.
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So I am no expert and I have not even read the whole book yet but I am very excited to read every bit that I do manage to get through. I think this person is really on some sort of high level, intellectually, from most writers that I read, but someone who I think knows what it means to work at getting his meaning across. Such as a lot of experience in an environment where there is a two way communication and not just teaching down to someone, or so I imagine would be the case, from things like me being able to even understand what he is saying. It prompted me to go ahead and also purchase his follow-up on this book, the one on Paul and Self and Cosmology. I find these subjects of the greatest importance and I appreciate the authors unbiased approach and I was happy to see where he gets Paul in aspects that I have come to realize through my own independent reading of Paul, but which seems to escape the comprehension of normal church goers.
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This book is the result of a long-standing effort to reach a comprehensive and coherent understanding, not only of the relationship between Paul and Stoicism, but also, and indeed mainly, of Paul. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
total directedness, ancient ethical tradition, hortatory practice, proper directedness, gentile addressees, specific parenesis, accordance with the flesh, heavenly politeuma, sinless practice, graceful intervention, parenetic character, bodily individual, parenetic section, letter situation, prescriptive parts, thanksgiving section, normative knowledge, immediate addressees, epistolary framework, practical pattern, present evil world, letter structure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christ Jesus, Christ-believing Jews, Rudolf Bultmann, Lord Jesus, New Testament, Diogenes Laertius Lives, Dialectical Theology, Jewish God, Paul's God New!
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This book is the result of a long-standing effort to reach a comprehensive and coherent understanding, not only of the relationship between Paul and Stoicism, but also, and indeed mainly, of Paul. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
total directedness, ancient ethical tradition, hortatory practice, proper directedness, gentile addressees, specific parenesis, accordance with the flesh, heavenly politeuma, sinless practice, graceful intervention, parenetic character, bodily individual, parenetic section, letter situation, prescriptive parts, thanksgiving section, normative knowledge, immediate addressees, epistolary framework, practical pattern, present evil world, letter structure Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Christ Jesus, Christ-believing Jews, Rudolf Bultmann, Lord Jesus, New Testament, Diogenes Laertius Lives, Dialectical Theology, Jewish God, Paul's God New!
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- Pauline Theology, Volume III: Romans by Jouette M. Bassler on 8 pages
- The Nicomachean Ethics (Oxford World's Classics) by Aristotle on 6 pages
- Library of Early Christianity by Wayne A. Meeks on 4 pages
- Seneca, Epistulae morales: Texte mit Erlauterungen. Arbeitsauftrage, Begleittexte, Lernwortschatz (EXEMPLA) (German Edition) by Seneca in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Hellenistic Philosophers, Vol. 1: Translations of the Principal Sources, with Philosophical Commentary by A. A. Long in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Slaves in the New Testament: Literary, Social, and Moral Dimensions by J. Albert Harrill on 4 pages
- Paul, the Stoics, and the Body of Christ (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series) by Michelle V. Lee on page 16, page 17, and Back Matter
- The Background and Contents of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors (Academia Biblica) (Academia Biblica (Series) (Brill Academic Publishers)) by Stephen Finlan on page 110, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Religion and the Self in Antiquity by David Brakke on page 67, page 68, and page 232
- The Background and Content of Paul's Cultic Atonement Metaphors (Academia Biblica (Society of Biblical Literature) (Paper)) by Stephen Finlan on page 110, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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