Author:
Barclay, John M. G.
Imprint:Grand Rapids, Michigan : Eerdmans Publishing Company, [2015]
Descriptionxvi, 656 pages ; 24 cm
Note:I. THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF GIFT AND GRACE. The Anthropology and History of the Gift -- The Perfections of Gift/Grace -- Interpreting Paul on Grace: Shifting Patterns of Perfection -- II. DIVINE GIFT IN SECOND TEMPLE JUDAISM. The Wisdom of Solomon -- Philo of Alexandria -- The Qumran Hodayot -- Pseudo-Philo, Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum -- 4 Ezra -- The Diverse Dynamics of Grace in Second Temple Judaism -- III. GALATIANS: THE CHRIST-GIFT AND THE RECALIBRATION OF WORTH. Configuring Galatians -- The Christ-Gift and the Recalibration of Norms (Galatians 1-2) -- The Christ-Gift, the Law, and the Promise (Galatians 3:1-5:12, with 6:11-18) -- The New Community as the Expression of the Gift (Galatians 5:13-6:10) -- IV. ROMANS: ISRAEL, THE GENTILES, AND GOD'S CREATIVE GIFT. The Creative Gift and Its Fitting Result (Romans 1:1-5:11) -- New Life in Dying Bodies: Grace and the Construction of a Christian Habitus (Romans 5:12-8:39; 12:1-15:13) -- Israel, Christ, and the Creative Mercy of God (Romans 9-11).
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-619) and index.
