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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Bruce Hansen |
| ISBN: | 9780567136046 0567136043 |
| OCLC Number: | 423591783 |
| Notes: | Revised version of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--University of St Andrews, 2007. "A Continuum imprint" |
| Description: | xiii, 229 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction -- Reading Paul ethnically -- Galatians 3.28 and the householf of faith -- 1 Corinthians 12.13 and the body of Christ -- Colossians. 3.11and the new humanity -- Conclusions. |
| Series Title: | Library of New Testament studies, 409.; T & T Clark library of biblical studies. |
| Responsibility: | Bruce Hansen. |
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'By applying the conceptual apparatus of 'ethnic theory' to the Pauline letters, he suggests that Paul attempts to supply his churches with a fictive kinship myth that renders them a new ethnos, drawn from Jews as well as Gentiles, rather than either group being subsumed to the other. In this way, Paul fashions for his churches a 'diaspora identity' (for which Hansen follows D Boyrain), but one that, rather than obliterating social differences between individuals, seeks to create a space that prevents any one pre-existing identity marker (such as circumcision) serving as a normative for all (pace Boyarin). This identity functions within a broadly bounded set of boundary-marking 'indices' that concern avoidance of idoltary and sexual immorality, and adherence to communal solidarity and Christ-like sacrificial love. There is much of value in this careful investigation.' David Lincicum, Mansfield College, Oxford --, "Theological Book Review " Read more...
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