Moral Language in the New Testament

Susanne Luther (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1979; 2012 Promotion; 2018 Habilitation; 2018-20 Associate Professor für Neues Testament und frühchristliche Studien an der Fakultät für Theologie und Religionswissenschaft der Universität Groningen (NL); Professorin für Neues Testament an der Universität Göttingen.Jan G. van der Watt (Herausgegeben von) Born 1952; emeritus professor of the University of Pretoria (South Africa) and Radboud University Nijmegen (Netherlands) as well as research associate University of the Free State (South Africa).Ruben Zimmermann (Herausgegeben von) Geboren 1968; 1999 Promotion zum Dr. theol. an der Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg; 1999 Ordination zum Pfarrer der Ev. Landeskirche in Baden; 2003 Habilitation an der Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München; Professor für Neues Testament an der Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz; Mitbegründer des Forschungszentrums „Ethik in Antike und Christentum" (e/αc) und der Zeitschrift „Journal for Ethics in Antiquity and Christianity" (JEAC); Research Associate im Departement of Old and New Testament Studies an der University of the Free State, Bloemfontein, Südafrika.

• Richard A. Burridge: Ethics and Genre. The Narrative Setting of Moral Language in the New Testament - Jörg Frey: Disparagement as Argument: The Polemical Use of Moral Language in Second Peter - Sean Freyne : In Search of Identity. Narrativity, Discipleship and Moral Agency - Friedrich Wilhelm Horn: Putting on Christ. On the Relation of Sacramental and Ethical Language in the Pauline Epistles - Lambert D. Jacobs: The "Ethics" of Badmouthing the Other. Vilification as Persuasive Speech Act in First Clement - Kobus Kok: As the Father has sent me, I send you: Towards a missional-incarnational ethos in John 4 - Matthias Konradt: "Whoever humbles himself like this child…": The Ethical Instruction in Matthew's Community Discourse (Matt 18) and Its Narrative Setting - Hermut Löhr: The Exposition of Moral Rules and Principles in Pauline Letters. Preliminary Observations on Moral Language in Earliest Christianity - Susanne Luther: Protreptic Ethics in the Letter of James. The Potential of Figurative Language in Character Formation - Elijah Mahlangu: Familial Metaphorical Language of Inclusiveness in Destigmatizing the Scourge of AIDS Victims in Africa - François S. Malan: Moral Language in the New Testament. Language and ethics in 2 Corinthians chapter 3 - Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr: Jesus' "Image of Man" as an Expression of his "Ethics" - Jeremy Punt: "Unethical" language in the Pauline letters? Stereotyping, vilification and identity matters - Gert J. Steyn: Some possible intertextual influences from the Jewish Scriptures on the (moral) language of Hebrews - Etienne de Villiers: Defining Morality in Christian Ethics and the Study of New Testament Ethics - Pieter G. R. de Villiers: Moral Language in Philemon - Jan van der Watt: Ethics through the power of language. Some explorations in the Gospel according to John - Ruben Zimmermann: Ethics and language: some initial explorations