Table of Contents: Constructing early Christian families :

Other Authors:	Moxnes, Halvor.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York : Routledge, 1997.
Subjects:	Families > Biblical teaching. Sociology, Biblical. Families > Rome. Jewish families > Religious life. Families > Religious aspects > Early church, ca. 30-600. > Christianity > History of doctrines Religion and sociology > Rome. Family > Biblical teaching. Family > Rome. Family > Religious aspects > Early church, ca. 30-600. > Christianity > History of doctrines RELIGION > Christianity > General. RELIGION > Christian Life Rome > Religion. Rome > Social conditions.
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Table of Contents:

Introduction / Halvor Moxnes
What is family? : problems in constructing early Christian families / Halvor Moxnes
The family in first-century Galilee / Santiago Guijarro
The family as the bearer of religion in Judaism and early Christianity / John M.G. Barclay
The relativisation of family ties in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman traditions / Stephen C. Barton
The Roman family : ideal and metaphor / Eva Marie Lassen
Family imagery and Christian identity in Gal 5:13 to 6:10 / Philip F. Esler
Equality within patriarchal structures : some New Testament perspectives on the Christian fellowship as a brother- or sisterhood and a family / Karl Olav Sandnes
Brotherhood in Plutarch and Paul : its role and character / Reidar Aasgaard
Brotherhood in Christ : a gender hermeneutical reading of 1 Thessalonians / Lone Fatum
Paul without passion : on Paul's rejection of desire in sex and marriage / Dale B. Martin
Asceticism and anti-familial language in the Gospel of Thomas / Risto Uro
Family structures in Gnostic religion / Ingvild Sælid Gilhus.