Identity Formation in the New Testament

Bengt Holmberg (Herausgegeben von) is professor emeritus at Lund University, Sweden.Mikael Winninge (Herausgegeben von) is senior lecturer at Umeå University, Sweden.

• The Role of Biblical Traditions in Identity FormationSamuel Byrskog: Christology and Identity in Intertextual Perspective. The Glory of Adam in the Narrative Substructure of Paul's Letter to the Romans - Per Jarle Bekken: The Controversy on Self-Witness according to John 5:31-40; 8:12-20 and Philo, Legum Allegoriae 3.205-208 - Tobias Hägerland: Rituals of (Ex-)Communication and Identity: 1 Cor 5 and 4Q266 11; 4Q270 7Identity Construction in texts Judith Lieu: Literary Strategies of Personification - Lauri Thurén: The Antagonists. Rhetorically Marginalized Identities in the New Testament - Thomas Kazen: Son of Man and Early Christian Identity Formation - Raimo Hakola: Social Identity and a Stereotype in the Making. Pharisees as Hypocrites in Matthew 23 - Rikard Roitto: Act as a Christ-believer, as a Household Member or Both? A Cognitive Perspective on the Relation Between the Social Identity in Christ and Household Identities in Pauline and Deutero-Pauline TextsGender-analytical PerspectivesHalvor Moxnes: Body, Gender, and Social Space. Dilemmas in Constructing Early Christian Identities - Fredrik Ivarsson: A Man Has To Do What A Man Has To Do. Protocols of Masculine Sexual Behaviour and 1 Corinthians 5-7 - Hanna Stenström: Masculine or Feminine? Male Virgins in Joseph and Aseneth and The Book of RevelationPostcolonial AnalysesHans Leander: The Parousia as Medicine. A Postcolonial Perspective on Mark and Christian Identity Construction - Christina Petterson: Mission of Christ and Local Communities in Acts - Anna Rebecca Solevåg: Perpetua and Felicitas. Reinterpreting Empire, Family and Sexuality