The Church and Its Mission in the New Testament and Early Christianity: Essays in Memory of Hans Kvalbein

358 Pages·2018·4.24 MB·English

by  David E Aune (editor), Reidar Hvalvik (editor)

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MarkusBockmuehl(Oxford)·JamesA.Kelhoffer(Uppsala)
TobiasNicklas(Regensburg)·J.RossWagner(Durham,NC)
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The Church and Its Mission in the New Testament and Early Christianity : Essays in Memory of Hans Kvalbein, edited by David E.
The Church and Its Mission
in the New Testament
and Early Christianity
EssaysinMemoryofHansKvalbein
Editedby
DavidE.AuneandReidarHvalvik
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The Church and Its Mission in the New Testament and Early Christianity : Essays in Memory of Hans Kvalbein, edited by David E.
DavidE.Aune,born1939;1970PhD;taughtatseveraluniversities,includingSaintXavier
UniversityandLoyolaUniversity;ProfessorofNewTestamentandChristianOriginsEmer-
itusattheUniversityofNotreDame.
ReidarHvalvik,born1951;1994Dr.theol.;1994–2005AssociateProfessor,since2005Pro-
fessorinNewTestamentstudiesatMFNorwegianSchoolofTheology;2006–07Research
ProfessorattheNorwegianInstituteinRome.
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The Church and Its Mission in the New Testament and Early Christianity : Essays in Memory of Hans Kvalbein, edited by David E.
TableofContents
Abbreviations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . VII
DavidE.Aune
Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
ReidarHvalvik
TheologyfortheChurch,ItsMissionandtheChristianLife:The
ScholarlyProfileofProfessorHansKvalbein(1942–2013) . . . . . . . . . 19
JosteinÅdna
TheMissiontoIsraelandtheNations:TheUnderstandingof
MissionintheGospelofMatthewReconsidered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
ErnstBaasland
MissionandLoveofEnemy:Matthew5:43–44and
Luke6:27–28,35(2Clem.13.3;Diogn.5)inItsGraeco-Roman
Context . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
JohannesBeutlerSJ
PeterontheWaytoHisUniversalMissionintheGospelofJohn . . . . 85
ReinhardFeldmeier
Ecclesiaperegrinans:Luke’sConceptofaMissionaryChurch . . . . . . . 99
VolkerGäckle
TheProclamationoftheKingdomofGodinActs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
KlausB.Haacker
.d FrustratedPlansandUnexpectedOutcome:Acts16:6–8
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ir llA TheGentileMissionoftheHellenists(Acts11:19–21)andthe
.kce JesusTradition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
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VI TableofContents
PederBorgen
PerspectivesforMission:Galatians3:1–14inContext . . . . . . . . . . . . 181
HalvorMoxnes
WhoaretheChildrenofAbrahaminRomans4?Retellingthe
MemoryofAbraham“OurAncestor” . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
DavidE.Aune
John’sPropheticCommissionandthePeopleoftheWorld
(Rev10:8–11) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
TorreySeland
“LikeNewbornInfants”:TheReadersof1PeterasNewly
ConvertedChristians? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
ReidarHvalvik
MassConversions,PersecutionsandChurchGrowth:Critical
ReflectionsontheRapidExpansionoftheChurchDuringthe
FirstThreeCenturies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
KarlOlavSandnes
HouseholdsandtheExodus:ANoteonInfantBaptisminthe
EarlyChurch . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
OskarSkarsaune
Mapping‘πάντατὰἔθνη’:TheGeographicalHorizonofEarly
ChristianMission . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
ReidarHvalvik
BibliographyofHansKvalbein’sScholarlyPublications . . . . . . . . . . . 299
ListofContributors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 313
IndexofAncientSources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
IndexofModernAuthors . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 337
.d IndexofSubjects . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 343
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The Church and Its Mission in the New Testament and Early Christianity : Essays in Memory of Hans Kvalbein, edited by David E.
Abbreviations
Abbreviations,ofthenamesofbiblicalbooksandotherancientsourcesaswell
as modern periodicals, reference works and serials, follow the rules recom-
mendedbytheSocietyofBiblicalLiterature,asfoundinPatrickH.Alexander
et al., eds., The SBL Handbook of Style for Ancient Near Eastern, Biblical, and
Early Christian Studies (Peabody, Mass.: Hendrickson, 1999). This is the style
followedwithregardtoallformalities.
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