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JAMES STARR and TROELS ENOBERG-PEDERSEN (eds.), Early Christian Paraenesis in Context (BZNW 125; Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, 2004). Pp. viii + 616. $119.63.
The collection contains the following articles: Wiard Popkes, "Paraenesis in the New Testament: An Exercise in Conceptuality" (pp. 13-46); Troels Engberg-Pedersen, "The Concept of Paraenesis" (pp. 47-72); James M. Starr, "Was Paraenesis for Beginners?" (pp. 73-111); Diana M. Swancutt, "Paraenesis in Light of Protrepsis: Troubling the Typical Dichotomy" (pp. 113-53); Johannes Thomas, "The Paraenesis of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: Between Torah and Jewish Wisdom" (pp. 157-90); Stephen Westerholm, "Four Maccabees: A Paraenetic Address?" (pp. 191-216); Hans Dieter Betz, "Paraenesis and the Concept of God According to Oratio XII (Olympikos) of Dio of Prusa" (pp. 217-34); Reider Aasgaard, "'Brotherly Advice': Christian Siblingship and New Testament Paraenesis" (pp. 238-65); Anders Klostergaard Petersen, "Paraenesis in Pauline Scholarship and in Paul-An Intricate Relationship" (pp. 267-95); Abraham Malherbe, "Paraenesis in the Epistle to Titus" (pp. 297-317); Walter Uebelacker, "Paraenesis or Paraclesis-Hebrews as a Test case" (pp. 319-52); Lauri Thurén, "Motivation as the Core of Paraenesis-Remarks on Peter and Paul as Persuaders" (pp. 353-71); Karl Olav Sandnes, "Revised Conventions in Early Christian Paraenesis-'Working Good' in 1 Peter as an Example" (pp. 373-403); Jonas Holmstrand, "Is There Paraenesis in 1 John?" (pp. 405-30); Clarence E. Glad, "The Rhetoric of Moral Exhortation in Clement's Pedagogue" (pp. 433-65); David Hellholm and Vermund Blomkvist, "Paraenesis as an Ancient GenreDesignation: The Case of the 'Euthalian Apparatus' and the 'Affiliated Argumenta'" (pp. 467-519); Samuel Rubenson, "Wisdom, Paraenesis and the Roots of Monasticism" (pp. 521-34).
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