The Noble Death
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The Noble Death

Graeco-Roman Martyrology and Paul's Concept of Salvation

  1. 170 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
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The Noble Death

Graeco-Roman Martyrology and Paul's Concept of Salvation

About this book

For Paul, Jesus' death is vicarious. But in what way, precisely? The author critically reviews the various possibilities, offering evidence that in Paul's thought Jesus is understood as fulfilling a martyr's role rather than as a cultic sacrifice or as patterned after biblical models such as the Suffering Servant or the Isaac figure. The essential aspects of the concept of the Noble Death, found in the martyr stories of 2 and 4 Maccabees and in Graeco-Roman literature, are clearly discernible also in Paul's interpretation of the death of Jesus. Paul was very much a man of his time, and the concept was a natural one for him to use in relation to Jesus' death.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Editorial Board
  3. Title
  4. Copyright
  5. CONTENTS
  6. Preface
  7. Abbreviations
  8. Introduction
  9. Chapter 1 AUL'S DOCTRINE OF SALVATION AND THE TEMPLE CULTUS
  10. Chapter 2 PAUL'S DOCTRINE OF SALVATION AND THE SUFFERING SERVANT
  11. Chapter 3 PAUL'S DOCTRINE OF SALVATION AND THE BINDING OF ISAAC (GENESIS 22)
  12. Chapter 4 PAUL'S DOCTRINE OF SALVATION AND THE MYSTERY RELIGIONS (ATTIS, ADONIS, ISIS, OSIRIS, ELEUSIS)
  13. Chapter 5 PAUL'S DOCTRINE OF SALVATION AND THE CONCEPT OF THE NOBLE DEATH
  14. Chapter 6 THE GRECO-ROMAN CONTEXT OF PAUL'S DOCTRINE OF SALVATION
  15. Conclusion
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index of Biblical References
  18. Index of Authors