Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts

By van Jan Willem Henten

Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts focuses upon the nexus of early Christian Ethics and its contexts as a dynamic process. The ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman or early Christian traditions as well as with the social-historical context at large continuously transformed early Christian ethics. The volume proposes a dynamic model for studying culture and its various expressions in a society composed of several ethnic and religious groups. The contributions focus on specific transformations of ethics in key documents of early Christianity, or take a more comparative perspective pointing to similar developments and overlaps as well as particularities within early Christian writings, Hellenistic-Jewish writings, Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish inscriptions.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9004237003
• ISBN13: 9789004237001
• Release Date: November 2012
• Publisher: Brill
• Length: 316 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.5"