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Sharing in the Inheritance

Identity and the Moral Life in Colossians

  • Hardback
  • 306 pages
  • Publisher: Continuum
  • 16.3 x 24.1 x 2 cm

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For Christians seeking deeper biblical understanding

Clarifies Colossians' moral implications for Gentiles

You will enrich your faith and understanding of Scripture

This book explores identity and moral life in Colossians.
The argument of this book is two-fold: the target of the argument of Colossians is a Judaism dismissive of the Gentile Colossian Christians and the recognition of that fact casts new light on the moral material of the letter and its integration into the argument of the epistle as a whole. Several arguments are made in support of these claims. Significant parallels between Colossians and Galatians suggest similar concerns in both letters relating to Israel's identity as the people of God and how that relates to the Gentile believers are to live. The writers of Colossians, while sharing a similar Jewish perspective with the Colossian philosophers on the relationship between identity and way of life, admonish the Gentile Christians to live in a way consistent with who they are. Nevertheless Paul and Timothy differ with the philosophers as to what constitutes the identity of the Colossian Gentiles as the people of God. In addition to the parallels drawn further themes are present in Colossians which strongly suggest the Jewish character of the philosophy: wisdom, election, and death of Christ as the final return from exile. The apocalyptic background of 3.1-6, the Jewish moral concerns of the ethical lists (3.5-17), and the christological orientation of the Haustafel, bolster the claim that the target of Colossians is Jewish in character and the moral material is integral to the argument.
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  • Title

    Sharing in the Inheritance

  • Author

    Allan R. Bevere

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Continuum

  • Published

    March 2003

  • Weight

    573g

  • Page Count

    306

  • Dimensions

    16.3 x 24.1 x 2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780826462077

  • ISBN-10

    0826462073

  • Eden Code

    1164048

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