Corinthian democracy : democratic discourse in 1 Corinthians

Corinthian democracy : democratic discourse in 1 Corinthians /

In this innovative study, Anna Miller challenges prevailing New testament scholarship that has largely dismissed the democratic civic assembly--the ekklēsia--as an institution that retained real authority in the first century CE. Using an interdisciplinary approach, she examines a range of classical...

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Main Author: Miller, Anna C. (Assistant professor of theology) (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Eugene, Oregon : Pickwick Publications, [2015]
Series:Princeton theological monograph series ; 220.
Subjects:
Paul, > de Tarse, > saint.
Paul > (saint , > 0005?-0067?)
Bible. > Corinthians, 1st > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. > Corinthians, 1st.
Bibel > Korintherbrief. > 1.
"Bible. > NT, > Corinthiens I."
Bible > N.T. > Épîtres > Paul > Corinthiens > Critique et exégèse.
Bible.
30-600
Democracy > Biblical teaching.
Rhetoric in the Bible.
Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
Church history > Primitive and early church.
Demokratie.
Christianisme et politique.
Démocratie > Aspect religieux.
Science politique > Dans la Bible.
Religion et politique.
Democracy.
Church history.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • The Ekklēsia in Greek education
  • The first-century Ekklēsia in the writings of Dio and Plutarch
  • Moses in the Ekklēsia : Josephus' use of democratic discourse
  • Speech and wisdom of the Corinthian Ekklēsia
  • The gendering of democratic participation
  • "As in all the Ekklēsia of the saints": 1 Cor 12-14
  • Conclusion.

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