Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation — Series: Society for New Testament Studies in Monograph (No. 100): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This study reconstructs the life of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor responsible for the execution of Jesus. The first section provides the historical and archaeological background. The following chapters look at six first-century authors: Philo, Josephus... Details...

Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation — Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (No. 100): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This study reconstructs the life of Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor responsible for the execution of Jesus. The first section provides the historical and archaeological background. The following chapters look at six first-century authors: Philo, Josephus... Details...

Power through Weakness: Paul's Understanding of the Christian Ministry in 2 Corinthians — Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (No. 86): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This work makes sense of the Apostle Paul's paradoxical description of his ministry in 2 Corinthians: "When I am weak, then I am strong!" In an extensive inquiry into the thought-world of Roman Corinth, Savage demonstrates that the Corinthians are evaluatin... Details...

Power through Weakness: Paul's Understanding of the Christian Ministry in 2 Corinthians — Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (No. 86): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This work makes sense of the Apostle Paul's paradoxical description of his ministry in 2 Corinthians: "When I am weak, then I am strong!" In an extensive inquiry into the thought-world of Roman Corinth, Savage demonstrates that the Corinthians are evaluatin... Details...

Pre-Existence, Wisdom, and The Son of Man: A Study of the Idea of Pre-Existence in the New Testament — Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (No. 21): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: The idea of pre-existence has a long history in early Jewish and Biblical traditions. Professor Hamerton-Kelly studies the various forms the idea takes in these traditions as they emerge in the New Testament. He pays special attention to the themes of Wisdo... Details...

Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis: Romans 1.16 and 4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters — Series: Society for New Testament Studies in Monograph (No. 104): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book is about how to read Paul's letters as first-century epistles. A new method is worked out by studying Romans 1.16 4.25. The first step is to consider what Paul was aiming to say to the Romans; the second is to examine Paul's thought as we see it i... Details...

Purpose and Cause in Pauline Exegesis: Romans 1.16-4.25 and a New Approach to the Letters: (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This book is about how to read Paul's letters as first-century epistles. A new method is worked out by studying Romans 1.16 - 4.25. The first step is to consider what Paul was aiming to say to the Romans; the second is to examine Paul's thought as we see it... Details...

Rhetoric and Galatians: Assessing an Approach to Paul's Epistle — Series: Society for New Testament Studies in Monograph (No. 101): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This study discusses the relationship between the epistles of Paul and classical rhetoric by focusing on recent studies of Galatians. The argument, built on a close reading of handbook evidence, receives support from a survey of the Church Fathers' discussi... Details...

Righteousness in Matthew and his World of Thought — Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (No. 41): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: While New Testament scholars generally agree that the concept of righteousness occupies an important place in the Gospel of Matthew, there is no scholarly consensus as to the meaning and function of this concept. The author of this study contends that this ... Details...

Romans and the Apologetic Tradition: The Purpose, Genre and Audience of Paul's Letter — Series: Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series (No. 81): (Cambridge University Press) Publisher's Comments: This study shows how classical Greek and Hellenistic philosophical and ethical traditions inform Paul's Letter to the Romans. It concentrates especially on Protreptic, a kind of literature deriving its name from the title of a lost writing of Aristotle that... Details...