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Hierapolis in the Heavens

Studies in the Letter to the Ephesians

Hierapolis in the Heavens

Studies in the Letter to the Ephesians

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£160.00

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN: 9780567045720
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 01/11/2007
Width: 15.6 cm
Height: 23.4 cm
"Hierapolis in the Heavens" is a project which brings together several articles and essays that Kreitzer has written on the letter to the Ephesians and follows up a new suggestion which he first put forward in 1997 as to the setting and provenance of the epistle. Nothing quite like this has yet been published on Ephesians, particularly as it does offer some important new archaeological, textual and numismatic evidence for scholarly consideration. The book should also be of interest to social-historians of the first-century world as it argues that the letter we know as "Ephesians" was written to what was, in effect, a daughter-church of the church in Colossae; some intriguing questions about power-relations between churches such as this are opened up as a result.It was formerly known as "The Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement", a book series that explores the many aspects of New Testament study including historical perspectives, social-scientific and literary theory, and theological, cultural and contextual approaches. "The Early Christianity in Context" series, a part of JSNTS, examines the birth and development of early Christianity up to the end of the third century CE. The series places Christianity in its social, cultural, political and economic context. European Seminar on Christian Origins is also part of JSNTS. "Journal for the Study of the Historical Jesus Supplement" is also part of JSNTS.
1. Hierapolis in the Heavens: A New Proposal for Reading the Letter to the Ephesians; 2. Epaphras and Philip: The Undercover Evangelists of Hierapolis; 3. The Plutonium of Hierapolis: A Geographical Solution for the Puzzle of Ephesians 4:9-10; 4. The Descent of Christ into the 'Lowermost Parts of the Earth' (Ephesians 4:9): Some Numismatic Evidence from Hierapolis; 5. Facing Hades: Images of the God of the Underworld from Hierapolis; 6. 'Crude Language' and 'Shameful Things Done in Secret' (Ephesians 5:4, 12): Allusions to the Cult of Demeter/Cybele in Hierapolis?; 7. Living in the Lycus Valley: Earthquake Imagery in Colossians, Philemon and Ephesians; 8. The Messianic Man of Peace as Temple Builder: Solomonic Imagery in Ephesians 2:13-22.

Larry Joseph Kreitzer

Larry J Kreitzer is Tutor for Graduates and Tutor of New Testament at Regent's Park College, Oxford., UK.

"The essays collected in this volume present a stimulating hypothesis concerning the life-setting of Ephesians in a consistent and illuminating way... this volume renders Kreitzer's plausible theory accessible and will contribute to further scholarly advances which certainly cannot ignore this important contribution." Journal for the Study of the New Testament Booklist 2009--Sanford Lakoff "Journal for the Study of the New Testament "

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