The commentary demonstrates how to work through the texts of Philippians and Philemon in the light of relevant scholarship but also with the use of one’s own critical judgment. While traditional exegetical questions are dealt with, contemporary theological concerns are highlighted, and there is a special effort to probe the social issues that arose in the Pauline churches. Gender roles and slavery are given particular attention as they arise in the texts. Scholarship, now enlightened by greater knowledge of the social structures and relationships of Mediterranean antiquity, is just beginning to explore questions of how women functioned in house-church communities, how early Christians dealt with the institution of slavery, and how slaves were integrated into their communities. To the extent allowed by the commentary format, these questions are given special attention in contributing to an ongoing discussion.

Abingdon New Testament Commentaries: Philippians & Philemon

Religion & Spirituality

Osiek, Carolyn

Christian Books & Bibles

ABINGDON PRESS *

Since the house was the physical meeting place for early Christian communities until about the end of the second century, in a very real sense investigation of Roman household life is of paramount significance for the study of early Christianity. In addition to considering a wide range of textual evidence from the New Testament, early church writings, and Roman and Jewish sources, the book aims to take account of Roman archaeological evidence for housing and discusses the importance of issues of space and visibility in shaping the lives of early Christian women. Several aspects of women's everyday existence will be investigated, including the lives of wives, widows, women and children, female slaves, women as patrons, household leaders, and teachers. Key Features: • Integrates biblical exegesis, archaeology, and social history • Maps, diagrams, photos • Indices

A Women's Place: House Churches In Earliest Christianity

MacDonald, Margaret Y.

Tulloch, Janet H.

Fortress Press

This focused look at women in the household context discusses the importance of issues of space and visibility in shaping the lives of early Christian women. Several aspects of women's everyday existence are investigated, including the lives of wives, widows, women with children, female slaves, women as patrons, household leaders, and teachers. In addition, several key themes emerge: hospitality, dining practices, and the extent of female segregation.

A Woman's Place: House Churches In Earliest Christianity

Tulloch, Janet

Comprehensive and careful, this is the first and only full-length commentary on "The Shepherd" in English. The revelations are glimpses of the religious imagination, social world, and moral ideals among early second-century Roman Christians.

The Shepherd of Hermas: A Commentary (Hermeneia)

For some time now experts in the social sciences have been turing their attention to one of the richest fields for the study of human group interaction: religion.

What Are They Saying about the Social Setting of the New Testament?

Paulist Press

A valuable and and hel;pful book for church women, clergy, seminaarians and ll those who wan to understand a positive female thelogy

Beyond Anger: On Being a Feminist in the Church

Religious Studies

Paulist Pr

What Are They Saying About the Social Setting of the New Testament?

Scripture and Prayer

Michael Glazier

The references to social differences in the Shepherd especially in the second Similitude and the tenth Mandate, suggest a social context in which traditional biblical values of attention to the poor are in tension with the behavior of the members of the church community to which the author belongs. Rather than the usual judgement of the Shepherd as a treatise on early penitential discipline, it is in fact a window into the social relationships and challenges of an early second-century Christian community.

Rich and Poor in the Shepherd of Hermas: An Exegetical-Social Investigation (Catholic Biblical Quarterly)

Catholic Biblical Association

The Jews of ancient Rome played an interesting and important role during those critical junctures in Jewish and world affairs - when the Jewish State was destroyed, when Judaism and Christianity parted company, and when new diaspora communities were established in the Roman world. The literary sources for the history of the Roman Jews have yielded but little information - certainly not enough for a convincing picture. Professor Harry J. Leon achieved an authentic portrait of that community by means of thorough investigation of the Jewish catacombs. The brief inscriptions reveal a wealth of significant information: the language of the people, their labors, their religion, and their manner of life. Many of the inscriptions are reproduced in photographs. The reader, whether layperson or scholar, will find Dr. Leon's synthesis of this information absorbing, as both ancient Rome and the ancient Jewish community come to life.

The Jews of Ancient Rome

History

Leon, Harry J.

World

Hendrickson Pub

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