Religious Rivalries in the Early Roman Empire and the Rise of Christianity
ple. Still, the ratio of ten to one puts the stress on the multitude of Gentiles who join in the pilgrimage to Zion. In my opini ...
Paul frequently quotes from Isaiah does not cancel out the opposing fact that he nowhere explicitly cites this text. What, then, ...
Here is where attempts to discern a coherent Pauline strategy get fuzzy. Aus (1979, 242–49) claims that evangelistic work in “th ...
hard realities. On the one hand, I believe that Paul does have a grand and lofty vision of a universal mission entrusted to him ...
and diplomacy. Still, Paul describes himself as “called to be an apostle” in order “to bring about the obedience of faith among ...
ideas of territory and of an authority operative in that territory (1984, 471–73, 480–83; see also R.P. Martin 1986, 319–24). On ...
about the obedience of faith among all the Gentiles, among whom are you also” (1:5), Paul has legitimate authority to exercise t ...
period. Paul’s mission gives the present age its raison d’être; this mission’s completion will bring the present age to an end. ...
matter too far to say that Paul thought of himself, without qualification, as the Servant. Still, the evidence is sufficient to ...
where this term is common, especially in connection with a proclamation of salvation to the nations; Paul seems to be compelled ...
throughout the empire; commercial ship traffic criss-crossed the Mediter- ranean; and Roman administration kept both roads and s ...
Church Maintenance Paul’s westward drive was countered by a consider- able retarding force, namely, the ongoing “daily pressure ...
On the other hand, I do not think that the grand vision can simply be seen as something arising out of the mission as it develop ...
his call was already prefigured in that of the Servant of Deutero-Isaiah (if this belief was not present already). The second mo ...
that the movement had been planted, already by the end of the first cen- turyCE, in significant centres throughout much of the e ...
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INTRODUCTION One of the baseline problems posed in this book by Leif E. Vaage’s pro- grammatic chapter 1 and engaged also by Ter ...
Although these debates have been helpful in some ways, I see little point in asking whether Judaism was a missionary religion. A ...
here are not meant to be controversial, I discuss only what seems to me to be the most telling evidence. Literary Evidence The f ...
Epictetus and Tacitus, that this kind of conversion involves the complete repudiation of one’s traditional piety. Elsewhere, Juv ...
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