Divine and human agency in Paul and his cultural environment / [manuscript] /

Divine and human agency in Paul and his cultural environment / [manuscript] / edited by John M. G. Barclay and Simon J. Gathercole. - London ; : T & T Clark, c2008. - x, 208 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. - Library of New Testament studies ; Early Christianity in context 335. . - T & T Clark library of biblical studies . - Library of New Testament studies ; 335. Library of New Testament studies. Early Christianity in context. .

Introduction / John M. G. Barclay -- Inner-Jewish debate on the tension between divine and human agency in second temple Judaism / Gabriele Boccaccini -- Predestination and free will in the theology of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Phillip S. Alexander -- Tension between God's command and Israel's obedience as reflected in the early rabbinic literature / Friedrich Avemarie -- Paul's anthropological "pessimism" in its Jewish context / Stephen Westerholm -- Constructing an antithesis : Pauline and other Jewish perspectives on divine and human agency / Francis Watson -- Self-sufficiency and power : divine and human agency in Epictetus and Paul / Troels Engberg-Pedersen -- "By the grace of God I am what I am" : grace and agency in Philo and Paul / John M. G. Barclay -- Sin in God's economy : agencies in Romans 1 and 7 / Simon Gathercole -- Epilogue: an essay in Pauline meta-ethics / J. Louis Martyn.

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Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Theology.
Bible.--Epistles of Paul--Criticism, interpretation etc.


Asthenia--Biblical teaching.
Free will and determinism--Biblical teaching.

BS2655.A67 / D58 2008