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Educating Early Christians through the Rhetoric of Hell: "Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth" as Paideia in Matthew and the Early Church - Softcover

Henning, Meghan

 
9783161529634: Educating Early Christians through the Rhetoric of Hell: "Weeping and Gnashing of Teeth" as Paideia in Matthew and the Early Church
Softcover
ISBN 10: 3161529634 ISBN 13: 9783161529634
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck, 2014

Synopsis

In this book, Meghan Henning explores the rhetorical function of the early Christian concept of hell. Building upon classical rhetorical techniques and the descriptions of Hades in Greek and Roman literature, she contends that the ancient Christian concept of hell was developed as a part of a distinctively Christian paideia. She traces the history of this interpretive process, illustrating the ways in which early Christians drew upon the Greek and Roman system of ethical and cultural education, to create and maintain their own culture. By doing this the author demonstrates that Matthew's gospel is the nexus in which early Christian ideas about eternal punishment begin to crystallize, and becomes the focal point for later apocalyptic and patristic authors who interpret and reshape Matthew's "weeping and gnashing of teeth" in a variety of pedagogical contexts.

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About the Author

Born 1982; 2004 BA from Denison University; 2007 MA from Yale Divinity School; 2013 PhD in New Testament from Emory University; currently teacher at several colleges and universities in the Boston area, and Faculty Religion Fellow at the Boston University School of Theology and the Institute on Religion, Culture and World Affairs.

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Publisher
Mohr Siebeck
Publication date
2014
Language
English
ISBN 10 
3161529634
ISBN 13 
9783161529634
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
294