Where is the Wise Man?
Graeco-Roman Education as a Background to the Divisions in 1 Corinthians 1-4
The divisions in the Corinthian church are catalogued by Paul in 1 Corinthians 1:12: Each of you says, 'I follow Paul,' or 'I follow Apollos,' or 'I follow Cephas,' or 'I follow Christ.' White shows how these splits are found in the milieu of 1st-century Graeco-Roman education. By consulting relevant literary and epigraphic evidence, White develops a picture of ancient education throughout the Empire generally, and in Roman Corinth specifically. This serves as a backdrop to the situation in the Christian community, wherein some of the elite, educated members preferred Apollos to Paul as a teacher since Apollos more closely resembled other tea…
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- ISBN: 978-0-567-66417-4
- EAN: 9780567664174
- Produktnummer: 18395334
- Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 1'271 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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Adam G. White (PhD, Macquarie University, Australia) is lecturer at Alphacrucis College, Sydney, Australia.
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