Adoption In The Roman World
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Author | : Hugh Lindsay |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 257 |
Release | : 2009-10-29 |
Genre | : Family & Relationships |
ISBN | : 052176050X |
Full account of the practice, including the procedures and adoption's use as a mode of succession, especially in political circles.
Author | : Michael Peppard |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2011-07-18 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0199877041 |
Winner of the 2013 Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise Michael Peppard examines the social and political meaning of divine sonship in the Roman Empire. He begins by analyzing the conceptual framework within which the term ''son of God'' has traditionally been considered in biblical scholarship. Then, through engagement with recent scholarship in Roman history - including studies of family relationships, imperial ideology, and emperor worship - he offers new ways of interpreting the Christian theological metaphors of ''begotten''and ''adoptive'' sonship. Peppard focuses on social practices and political ideology, revealing that scholarship on divine sonship has been especially hampered by mistaken assumptions about adopted sons. He invites fresh readings of several early Christian texts, from the first Gospel to writings of the fourth century. By re-interpreting several ancient phenomena - particularly divine status, adoption, and baptism - he offers an imaginative refiguring of the Son of God in the Roman world.
Author | : J. Paul Sampley |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 449 |
Release | : 2016-10-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567656748 |
This landmark handbook, written by distinguished Pauline scholars, and first published in 2003, remains the first and only work to offer lucid and insightful examinations of Paul and his world in such depth. Together the two volumes that constitute the handbook in its much revised form provide a comprehensive reference resource for new testament scholars looking to understand the classical world in which Paul lived and work. Each chapter provides an overview of a particular social convention, literary of rhetorical topos, social practice, or cultural mores of the world in which Paul and his audiences were at home. In addition, the sections use carefully chosen examples to demonstrate how particularly features of Greco-Roman culture shed light on Paul's letters and on his readers' possible perception of them. For the new edition all the contributions have been fully revised to take into account the last ten years of methodological change and the helpful chapter bibliographies fully updated. Wholly new chapters cover such issues as Paul and Memory, Paul's Economics, honor and shame in Paul's writings and the Greek novel.
Author | : Suzanne Dixon |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 299 |
Release | : 2005-08-19 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1134563191 |
An international collection of experts go beyond the usual cannon of literary texts, and assess a vast range of evidence - inscriptions, burial data, domestic architecture, sculpture and the law,
Author | : Andrew M. Riggsby |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 295 |
Release | : 2010-06-14 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 052168711X |
Andrew Riggsby provides a survey of the main areas of Roman law, and their place in Roman life.
Author | : Trevor J. Burke |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 234 |
Release | : 2006-10-24 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830826238 |
In this New Studies in Biblical Theology volume, Trevor Burke argues that the scripture phrase "adopted as sons," while a key theological metaphor, has been misunderstood, misrepresented or neglected. He redresses the balance in this comprehensive study of the phrase. "This volume not only probes a neglected theme; it also edifies," says D. A. Carson.
Author | : Robert Brian Lewis |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 224 |
Release | : 2016-01-28 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0567663892 |
Robert Lewis examines Paul's use of the phrase “Spirit of Adoption” in Romans 8:12-17 against the background of its Roman Imperial context in order to shed light on interpretation of Paul's Letter to the Romans. Whereas other scholars have explored what Paul may have meant when he uses the term “adoption” Lewis instead explores the reasons behind Paul's coupling of it with the term “spirit”. Having examined theories for a possible Jewish antecedent for Paul's use of this phrase, and found them less than persuasive, Lewis unlocks the data within the term's Roman Imperial context that significantly clarifies what Paul means when he uses the phrase “Spirit of adoption". Lewis shows that when Paul wrote his letter to the Romans, adoption had become a feature of Imperial succession. Roman religion gave a great deal of prominence to the Roman family spirit - the genius. The Emperor's genius became identified as a deity in Roman religion and its veneration was widespread in Rome as well as the provinces. When Romans 8.12-17 is read against this background, a very different kind of exegetical picture emerges.
Author | : Erin M. Heim |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 391 |
Release | : 2017-03-06 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9004339876 |
In a new study on the Pauline adoption metaphors, Erin Heim applies a wide array of contemporary theories of metaphor in a fresh exegesis of the four instances of adoption (huiothesia) metaphors in Galatians and Romans. Though many investigations into biblical metaphors treat only their historical background, Heim argues that the meaning of a metaphor lies in the interanimation of a metaphor and the range of possible backgrounds it draws upon. Using insights from contemporary theories, Heim convincingly demonstrates that the Pauline adoption metaphors are instrumental in shaping the perceptions, emotions, and identity of Paul’s first-century audiences.
Author | : Ramsay MacMullen |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 252 |
Release | : 2000-01-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300129908 |
During the lifetime of Augustus (from 63 B.C. to A.D. 14), Roman civilization spread at a remarkable rate throughout the ancient world, influencing such areas as art and architecture, religion, law, local speech, city design, clothing, and leisure and family activities. In his newest book, Ramsay MacMullen investigates why the adoption of Roman ways was so prevalent during this period.Drawing largely on archaeological sources, MacMullen discovers that during this period more than half a million Roman veterans were resettled in colonies overseas, and an additional hundred or more urban centers in the provinces took on normal Italian-Roman town constitutions. Great sums of expendable wealth came into the hands of ambitious Roman and local notables, some of which was spent in establishing and advertising Roman ways. MacMullen argues that acculturation of the ancient world was due not to cultural imperialism on the part of the conquerors but to eagerness of imitation among the conquered, and that the Romans were able to respond with surprisingly effective techniques of mass production and standardization.
Author | : Michael Peppard |
Publisher | : OUP USA |
Total Pages | : 302 |
Release | : 2011-08-29 |
Genre | : Bibles |
ISBN | : 0199753709 |
The author examines the social and political meaning of divine sonship in the Roman Empire. He analyzes the conceptual framework within which the term ''son of God'' has traditionally been considered in biblical scholarship. Then, through engagement with recent scholarship in Roman history, he offers new ways of interpreting the Christian theological metaphors of ''begotten''and ''adoptive'' sonship. He focuses on social practices and political ideology, revealing that scholarship on divine sonship has been especially hampered by mistaken assumptions about adopted sons.