The New Testament and Early Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David E. Aune
This
volume is a collection of scholarly studies honoring Prof.Dr. David. E.
Aune on his 65th birthday. Its title, "The New Testament and Early
Christian Literature in Greco-Roman Context: Studies in Honor of David
E. Aune," reflects Prof. Aune's academic training, interests, and
extensive publications. The volume's studies investigate a range of
topics within the Pauline correspondence, Gospels, Apocalypse of John,
and other early Christian writings with insights drawn from Greco-Roman
culture and Hellenistic Judaism. Thus, the studies make use of
Greco-Roman literature, rhetoric, magic, medicine, moral philosophy,
iconography, archaeology, religious cults, and social conventions while
also utilizing social-historical, social-scientific, literary-critical,
and rhetorical-critical methodologies, thereby adding an
interdisciplinary dimension to the volume. These groundbreaking studies
have been written by prominent international scholars and are published
here for the first time.
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