Theology
Hans Dieter Betz
Paulinische Theologie und Religionsgeschichte
Gesammelte Aufsätze V
[Pauline Theology and the History of Religion. Collected Essays V.]
2009. XII, 259 pages.
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ISBN 978-3-16-149435-2
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Published in German.
The volume includes 12 scholarly essays written between 1995 and 2008, in English or German. As the title of the book indicates, the presentation is in two parts. The first part includes seven essays on the theology of Paul (concerning ritual and ethics of the Lord's Supper, anthropology, sacrifice, wisdom, self-deception and self-knowledge). The second part comprises five history-of-religion studies concerning the Hellenistic philosophers Dio of Prusa and Plutarch of Chaironeia (discussing religion and ethics, worship of the deity and cultic images, history and miracle, apotheosis and empty tombs). Methodically controlled comparisons show similar and different problems of interest on both sides, which deserve attention also in contemporary discussions.