The Colossian controversy: wisdom in dispute at Colossae
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Main Author: DeMaris, Richard E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Sheffield, England JSOT Press ©1994
Series:Journal for the study of the New Testament 96
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Online Access:Volltext
Item Description:"An earlier version of this study was a dissertation completed in 1990 at Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary. The current version of the study benefited from a significant rewriting based on additional research, particularly in the area of archaeology"--Acknowledgments
Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-160) and indexes
Identifying the group or position that the author of Colossians attacks in ch 2 of that letter has long occupied scholars, but no interpretative consensus has resulted. This study details the inadequacy of existing reconstructions and offers in their stead the portrait of philosophically inclined Gentiles drawn to the Jewish community and then to the Christian congregation by ideas and practices congenial with their view of the world. Central to the Colossian philosophy's outlook was the pursuit of divine knowledge or wisdom through (1) the order of the cosmic elements (2.8, 20); (2) the bodily
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (170 pages)
ISBN:9780567490575
0567490572
185075473X
9781850754732

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