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Product Description: An intriguing dilemma for those who study ancient Christian contexts and literature This edited volume includes essays and responses from specialists in the Didache and in early church history in general. Features: Strategies for understanding liturgical constructions and ritual worship found in the text Studies that apply generally to the overall content and background of the Didache Essays on the relationship between the Didache and scripture particularly with respect to the Gospel of Matthew...read more
By Clayton N. Jefford (editor)

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9781628370508 | Society of Biblical Literature, May 31, 2015, cover price $95.95 | About this edition: An intriguing dilemma for those who study ancient Christian contexts and literature This edited volume includes essays and responses from specialists in the Didache and in early church history in general.

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9781628370485 | Society of Biblical Literature, May 31, 2015, cover price $75.95 | About this edition: An intriguing dilemma for those who study ancient Christian contexts and literature This edited volume includes essays and responses from specialists in the Didache and in early church history in general.

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Product Description: The relationship between Paul and Torah is often discussed in terms of Paul's theology of salvation. However it is also important in Pauline ethics. Whilst some scholars dismiss this because of a paucity of Old Testament quotations in Paul, others hint at the consensus between Paul and early Jewish tradition concerning the content of single commands...read more
By Martin Meiser (editor)

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9780567374134 | T&t Clark Ltd, September 20, 2012, cover price $120.00

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9780567127365, titled "The Torah in the Ethics of Paul" | Reprint edition (T&t Clark Ltd, January 16, 2014), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: The relationship between Paul and Torah is often discussed in terms of Paul's theology of salvation.

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Product Description: In Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts experts from various fields analyze the process of transformation of early Christian ethics because of the ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman and Christian traditions.
By Joseph Verheyden (editor)

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9789004237001 | Brill Academic Pub, December 31, 2012, cover price $136.00 | About this edition: In Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts experts from various fields analyze the process of transformation of early Christian ethics because of the ongoing interaction with Jewish, Greco-Roman and Christian traditions.

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Product Description: English summary: Ethics in Ancient Christianity was the theme at the conference of the Patristics Association in January 2003 in Heilsbronn by Nuremberg, Germany. This volume documents the papers presented there by internationally renowned experts from various disciplines of classical studies and theology...read more

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9789042924420 | Peeters Bvba, January 31, 2011, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: English summary: Ethics in Ancient Christianity was the theme at the conference of the Patristics Association in January 2003 in Heilsbronn by Nuremberg, Germany.

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Product Description: The Didascalia apostolorum is one of the ancient church orders, setting out the duties and responsibilities of laypeople, bishops and widows, regulating the keeping of Pascha, and engaging in polemic with Judaism. It is a work of extraordinary interest for the history of the church in Syria, as a document of social and liturgical history and as a document bearing witness to relations between Christians and Jews...read more

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9782503529936 | Brepols Pub, November 1, 2009, cover price $92.00 | About this edition: The Didascalia apostolorum is one of the ancient church orders, setting out the duties and responsibilities of laypeople, bishops and widows, regulating the keeping of Pascha, and engaging in polemic with Judaism.

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Product Description: J. de Waal Dryden seeks to develop a hermeneutic for 1 Peter that integrates theology and ethics while reading the epistle in the context of ancient epistolary practices. Both these agendas are accomplished by recognizing 1 Peter as a paraenetic epistle, analogous to paraenetic epistles typical of the Greco-Roman philosophic schools...read more

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9783161489105 | Mohr Siebrek Ek, August 31, 2006, cover price $82.00 | About this edition: J.

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Product Description: Why did the early Christian church, with its many Gentile members, keep Old Testament commandments about sex and idolatry but disregard many others, like those about food or ritual purity? Did Christianity inherit its norms of moral reasoning from Judaism or invent them afresh?In Jewish Law in Gentile Churches, Markus Bockmuehl approaches such questions by examining the halakhic (Jewish legal) rationale behind the ethics of Jesus, Paul, and the early Christians...read more

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9780801027581 | Baker Academic, November 1, 2003, cover price $36.00 | About this edition: Why did the early Christian church, with its many Gentile members, keep Old Testament commandments about sex and idolatry but disregard many others, like those about food or ritual purity?

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Product Description: Modelled on the De Officiis of Cicero, Ambrose of Milan's work sets out his ethical vision for his clergy. This is the first Modern English translation of Ambrose's Latin. The Text and Translation in Volume 1 are supplemented by a detailed Commentary (Vol...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Ivor J. Davidson (editor)

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9780199245789 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, April 25, 2002, cover price $475.00 | About this edition: Modelled on the De Officiis of Cicero, Ambrose of Milan's work sets out his ethical vision for his clergy.

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Product Description: The Crucible of Christian Morality explores the notion of Christian ethics and discusses its roots in the teachings of Jesus and also Hellenistic philosophy. Its significance in developing moral standards throughout the world and its stability in the modern world...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9780415118583 | Routledge, September 1, 1998, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: The Crucible of Christian Morality explores the notion of Christian ethics and discusses its roots in the teachings of Jesus and also Hellenistic philosophy.

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9780415118590 | Routledge, September 1, 1998, cover price $41.95 | About this edition: The Crucible of Christian Morality explores the notion of Christian ethics and discusses its roots in the teachings of Jesus and also Hellenistic philosophy.

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Product Description: This study explores the background, character, and function of Colossians as a form of theological education and appeal in the Pauline tradition. A historical, literary, rhetorical, and narrative analysis of the text shows how its theological affirmations and claims were presented so as to engage the life of its readers in practical ways and in practical contexts, especially in order to direct their moral formation as Christians and their self-understanding as a Christian community in a time of controversy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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9789004109377 | Brill Academic Pub, December 1, 1997, cover price $226.00 | About this edition: This study explores the background, character, and function of Colossians as a form of theological education and appeal in the Pauline tradition.

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Product Description: This volume makes available a collection of the most important and influential modern articles on the "Didache" or "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles," many of them appearing in English for the first time. Leading Jewish and Christian scholars in the field represented in the volume include G...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Jonathan A. Draper (editor)

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9789004103757 | Brill Academic Pub, August 1, 1997, cover price $335.00 | About this edition: This volume makes available a collection of the most important and influential modern articles on the "Didache" or "Teaching of the Twelve Apostles," many of them appearing in English for the first time.

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9780300056402 | Yale Univ Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $35.00

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9780300065138 | Reissue edition (Yale Univ Pr, September 27, 1995), cover price $29.00

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Product Description: First Published in 1993. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
By Everett Ferguson (editor)

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9780815310761 | Routledge, March 1, 1993, cover price $155.00 | About this edition: First Published in 1993.

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By William S. Babcock (editor)

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9781555406608 | Scholars Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $44.95

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9781555406615 | Scholars Pr, January 1, 1992, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Book by

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Product Description: From 1971–1974 John Piper attended the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München for doctoral work. In choosing a dissertation topic he decided to explore Jesus’s command in the Synoptic Gospels to love one’s enemies, and its relationship to similar ethical exhortations in the epistles (the Early Christian Paraenesis)...read more

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9780801071171 | Reprint edition (Baker Pub Group, January 1, 1992), cover price $14.99 | About this edition: From 1971–1974 John Piper attended the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München for doctoral work.

Product Description: In this work the Christological motives in the paraenetic sections of the Pauline letters are studied in detail. These motives are based on the earthly Jesus, the risen Lord, the Christ to come or on the whole way of Christ. Though Paul uses several motives for Christian action, the overall and the most important motive of the Pauline paraenesis is the salvific action of God through Christ...read more

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9783631428573 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, August 1, 1990, cover price $67.95 | About this edition: In this work the Christological motives in the paraenetic sections of the Pauline letters are studied in detail.

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Describes the social setting of the early Christians, looks at the Greek and Roman ethical traditions, and explains the moral formation of the beginning Christian movement

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9780664219109 | Westminster John Knox Pr, October 1, 1986, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Describes the social setting of the early Christians, looks at the Greek and Roman ethical traditions, and explains the moral formation of the beginning Christian movement

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9780664250140 | Reprint edition (John Knox Pr, November 1, 1988), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Describes the social setting of the early Christians, looks at the Greek and Roman ethical traditions, and explains the moral formation of the beginning Christian movement

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