In Search of the Early Christians : Selected

A central figure in the reconception of early Christian history over the last three decades, Wayne A. Meeks offers here a selection of his most influential writings on the New Testament and early Christianity. His essays illustrate recent changes in our thinking about the early Christian movement and pose provocative questions regarding the history of this period.

Meeks explores a fascinating range of topics, from the figure of the androgyne in antiquity to the timeless matter of God's reliability, from Paul's ethical rhetoric to New Testament pictures of Christianity's separation from Jewish communities. Meeks' introduction offers a retrospective on New Testament studies of the past thirty years and explains the intersection of these studies with a variety of exploratory and revisionist movements in the humanities, embracing social theory, history, anthropology, and literature. In an epilogue the author reflects on future directions for New Testament scholarship.

Editors' Preface

vii

Allen R. Hilton

H. Gregory Snyder

Author's Preface

ix

Reflections on an Era

xi

Wayne A. Meeks

PART ONE: READING AND WRITING THE PAST

1

(182)

The Image of the Androgyne: Some Uses of a Symbol in Earliest Christianity

3

(52)

The Man from Heaven in Johannine Sectarianism

55

(36)

Equal to God

91

(15)

The Man from Heaven in Paul's Letter to the Philippians

106

(9)

Breaking Away: Three New Testament Pictures of Christianity's Separation from the Jewish Communities

115

(24)

``And Rose Up to Play'': Midrash and Parenesis in I Corinthians 10:1-22

139

(14)

Judgment and the Brother: Romans 14:1-15: 13

153

(14)

The Circle of Reference in Pauline Morality

167

(16)

PART TWO: RESPONDING AND REVISIONING

183

(71)

A Hermeneutics of Social Embodiment

185

(11)

The Polyphonic Ethics of the Apostle Paul

196

(14)

On Trusting an Unpredictable God: A Hermeneutical Meditation on Romans 9-11

210

(20)

Vision of God and Scripture Interpretation in a Fifth-Century Mosaic

230

(24)

Afterword

254

(9)

Wayne A. Meeks

Bibliography of Works Cited

263

(22)

Sources

285

(2)

Index of Biblical References

287

(13)

Subject Index

300

(9)

Index of Modern Authors

309

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