Books written by John M.G. Barclay
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Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary, Volume 10
Herodotus approves Spartan resistance to corruption by foreign wealth (3.148), but both Thucydides (2.39; cf. 1.144) and Plato (Leg. 950a-d) reflect Athenian criticism of Spartan policy as a sign of insecurity (Thucydides) or savagery ...
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The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians
Origen maintained the distinction between church and synagogue but collapsed the categories of Law and gospel.5 All scripture, ... 1985); Elizabeth Ann Dively Lauro, The Soul and Spirit of Scripture in Origen's Exegesis (Leiden: Brill, ...
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The New Testament in Comparison: Validity, Method, and Purpose in Comparing Traditions
By analysing, with the aid of anthropology and social history, the variety of ways in which gifts could be practised ... by what process did Paul's particular construction of grace (as unconditioned gift) become taken for granted as the ...
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Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment
Re-examines Paul within contemporary Jewish debate, attuned to the significant theological issues he raises without imposing upon him the frameworks developed in later Christian thought
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The New Testament in Comparison: Validity, Method, and Purpose in Comparing Traditions
... 411–31 (419): 'In Thomas the 'living Jesus' is the immortal Jesus who brings to others the secret of immortality.' Charles H. Hedrick, Unlocking the Secrets of the Gospel according to Thomas: A Radical Faith for a New Age (Eugene: ...
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The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians
... Jewish Fictional Letters from Hellenistic Egypt : The Epistle of Aristeas and Related Literature . Atlanta , GA : SBL Press , 2018 . Wilcke , H.-A. , Das Problem eines messianischen Zwischenreichs bei Paulus , ATANT 51 . Zürich ...