Educating early Christians through the rhetoric of hell

"weeping and gnashing of teeth" as paideia in Matthew and the early church

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Educating early Christians through the rhetoric of hell

"weeping and gnashing of teeth" as paideia in Matthew and the early church

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Meghan Henning explores the rhetorical function of the early Christian concept of hell, drawing connections to Greek and Roman systems of education, and examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greek and Latin literature, the New Testament, early Christian apocalypses and patristic authors.

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Mohr Siebeck
Language
English
Pages
294

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Table of Contents

The history of hellish rhetoric
Death, judgment, and the abode of the dead as malleable rhetorical tools in the Hebrew Bible
Learning from the dead : Hades as an expression of paideia in Greek and Latin literature
Periēgēsis? : the journey through the places of the dead in Jewish apocalyptic literature
A choice between two ways : the rhetoric of eternal punishment in the New Testament
The pedagogical role of eschatological judgment, eternal punishment, and the afterlife in Matthew
The pedagogical function of hell in the early Christian apocalypses and the early church
Conclusion : the landscape of hell and the cultivation of early Christianity.

Edition Notes

Revision of the author's thesis (Ph. D.)--Emory University, 2013 under title: Weeping and gnashing of teeth : the pedagogical function of hell in Matthew and the early church.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-276) and indexes.

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Tübingen
Series
Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 2. Reihe -- 382, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 382.

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Dewey Decimal Class
236.2 (H)
Library of Congress
BT903 .H46 2014

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 294 pages
Number of pages
294

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL28411956M
ISBN 10
3161529634
ISBN 13
9783161529634
LCCN
2014476742
OCLC/WorldCat
897106369

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