Grace, Reconciliation, Concord

Cilliers Breytenbach, Dr. theol. (1983) Dr. theol. habil. (1986) both at the Ludwig-Maximilians University Munich, is Professor for the Literature, Religion and History of Early Christianity at the Humboldt University in Berlin and Professor extra ordinary for New Testament at Stellenbosch University. He is the author of monographs on Mark, Paul and the Acts of the Apostles.

Those interested in Hellenistic Greek, New Testament Studies and Systematic Theology

CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Preface
Abbreviations
Introduction. Rephrasing the “Foolish” Word of the Cross

Part One: Pre-Pauline and Pauline Interpretation of Christ’s Death
1. Versöhnung, Stellvertretung und „Sühne“: Semantische und traditionsgeschichtliche Bemerkungen am Beispiel der paulinischen Briefe
2. Gnädigstimmen und Gnädigsein in urchristlichen Texten
3. The “for Us” Phrases in Pauline Soteriology: Considering Their Background and Use
4. The Septuagint Version of Isaiah 53 and the Early Christian Formula “He Was Delivered for Our Trespasses”
5. „Christus starb für uns“: Zur Tradition und paulinischen Rezeption der sogenannten „Sterbeformeln“

Part Two: God’s Grace, Reconciliation, Triumph and Salvation in Paul’s Letters
6. Der einzige Gott—Vater der Barmherzigkeit: Toratexte als Grundlage des paulinischen Redens von Gott
7. Der Danksagungsbericht des Paulus über den Gottesglauben der Thessalonicher (1 Thess 1:2–10)
8. Salvation of the Reconciled (With a Note on the Background of Paul’s Metaphor of Reconciliation)
9. Paul’s Proclamation and God’s “Thriambos” (Notes on 2 Corinthians 2:14–16b)
10. “Charis” and “Eleos” in Paul’s Letter to the Romans
11. “For in Hope We Were Saved”: Discerning Time in Paul’s Letter to the Romans

Part Three: Post-Pauline Salvation
12. „Christus litt euretwegen“: Zur Rezeption von JesajaLXX 53 und anderen frühjüdischen Traditionen im 1. Petrusbrief
13. Forgiveness in Early Christian Tradition
14. Civic Concord and Cosmic Harmony: Sources of Metaphoric Mapping in 1 Clement 20:3

Part Four: Paulus Africanus
15. Die Identität eines Christenmenschen—im Anschluss an Paulus
16. “Not According to Human Criteria”: Bernard Lategan’s Reading of Galatians in a Crumbling Apartheid State

Index of Modern Authors/Persons
Index of Ancient Sources (Selection)
Index of Subjects