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The New Testament Among the Writings of Antiquity

by Detlev Dormeyer

  • Paperback
  • 315 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

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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.
The New Testament Among the Writings of Antiquity and The Essential History of Christianity
The Essential History of ChristianityThe New Testament Among the Writings of Antiquity

  • Author

    Detlev Dormeyer

  • Book Format

    Paperback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    January 1997

  • Weight

    459g

  • Page Count

    315

  • Dimensions

    15.6 x 23.4 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9781850758600

  • ISBN-10

    1850758603

  • Eden Code

    1181795

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