Ancient and Modern Perspectives on the Bible and Culture (Scholars Press Homage Series). Essays in Honor of Hans Dieter Betz / Edited Adela Yarbro Collins.

Aus der Bibliothek von Prof. Wolfgang Haase, langj�igem Herausgeber der ANRW und des International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT) / From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - sehr guter Zustand - Table of Contents -- -- Adela Yarbro Collins -- Part One: The Bible and Culture: Ancient Perspectives -- Greek Culture and the Question of Natural Theology -- James Barr -- The Tension Between Revelation and Natural Theology -- John J. Collins -- Lucian on Conversion: Remarks on Lucian�s Dialogue Nigrinos -- Hubert Cancik -- Conversion in Early Christianity -- Edgar Krentz -- Towards Plato and Paul: The �Inner� Human Being -- Walter Burkert -- Inner and Outer Selves in Harmony -- Elizabeth Asmis -- Seneca�s Collection of Epistles: A Medium of Philosophical -- Communication -- Hildegard Cancik-Lindemaier -- Reading to Virtue -- Margaret M. Mitchell -- The Matthean Trajectory from Q to Mark -- James M. Robinson -- Literary History and Cultural History -- Adela Yarbro Collins -- Jesus and Heracles in C�z (t��ira): Death, Myth, and -- Monsters at the �Straits of Gibraltar� (Mark 4:35-5:43) -- Roy D. Kotansky -- Jesus and the Romans in Galilee: Jews and Gentiles in the Decapolis -- David E. Aune -- The Bible and Culture: Modern Perspectives -- A Case Study of Scripture and Culture: Apocalypticism as Cultural Identity in Past and Present -- Ithamar Gruenwald -- Cross-Cultural Reflections on Apocalypticism -- Jonathan Z. Smith -- Beatitudes and Their Illocutionary Functions -- David Hellholm -- Beatitudes and Mysteries -- Detlev Dormeyer -- Conversion and Culture: A Comparative Study of the Conversions of Paul and Two Twentieth-Century African Christians -- Kathleen O�Brien Wicker -- Conversion as a Native Category -- Arthur J. Droge. ISBN 9780788505218