03841cam a2200253Ii 4500001001300000003000600013005001700019008004100036020001500077020001800092035001900110040006500129100003400194240003000228245017900258250009000437260005200527300005200579505193600631505057702567630004003144700005903184776034403243ocm04565433 OCoLC20230912060606.0790119s1978    miufh         000 0 eng d  a0801028868  a9780801028861  a(OCoLC)4565433  aTLTbengcTLTdOCLdOCLCQdBAKERdOCLCGdOCLCQdOCLCOdZAAPA1 aDeissmann, Adolf,d1866-1937.10aLicht vom Osten.lEnglish10aLight from the ancient East ; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world /cby Adolf Deissmann ; translated by Lionel R.M. Strachan.  aNew and completely rev. ed. with eighty-five illustrations from the latest German ed.  aGrand Rapids, Mich. :bBaker Book House,c1978.  axxxii, 535 pages :bplates, facsimiles ;c22 cm  aThe problem - discovery and nature of the New Texts: The Problem;  The Texts: Inscriptions, Papyri, Ostraca
The Language of the New Testament illustrated from the New Texts: The historical and the dogmatic method of New Testament Philology. Principal problems;  The New Testament a Record of late Colloquial Greek;  Examples: Phonology and Accidence;  Onomatology;  Vocabulary;  Syntax; Style;  The Essential character of the New Testament
The New Testament as Literature, illustrated by the New Texts: The problem of the Literary Development of Christianity;  The Essential distinction between "Literary" and "Non-literary" ;  A Series of Twenty-six Ancient Letters (from originals) representative of Non-Literary Writing;  The essential Distinction between the Letter and the Epistle;  Ancient Letters and Epistles;  Primitive Christian Letters;  The Literary Development of Primitive Christianity; The Essential Character of the New Testament
Social and Religious History in the New Testament, illustrated from the New Texts: Clues in the New Testament referring to the Subject. Remarks on Method;  The cultural background of Primitive Christianity;  The Religious World contemporary with Primitive Christianity;  The Competing cults;  Types of Individual Souls among the Ancient Non-Literary Classes;  Stimuli derived from contemporary popular religion -- Stimuli derived from Contemporary popular morality -- Stimuli derived from Contemporary Popular Law -- Christ and the Caesars: Parallelism in the Technical Language of their Cults;  The Theological and the Religious Element in Primitive Christianity;  The Forces enabling Primitive Christianity to gain Converts;  The Essential Character of the New Testament
Retrospect - Future work of research: Retrospect;  Christianity popular in its Personalities and forms of expression;  Future work for the Philologist;  Future work for the Theologian;  The New Testament Lexicon
  aAppendices: Jewish prayers for vengeance found at Rheneia;  On the Text of the Second Logia Fragment from Oxyrhynchus;  The supposed Fragment of a Gospel at Cairo;  Lucius - Luke;  The Synagogue inscription of Theodotus at Jerusalem;  The diptych of M. Valerius Quadratus, a veteran of the Jerusalem campaign;  The Epitaph of Regina, A Roman Jewess;  A Jewish inscription in the Theatre at Miletus;  The so-callled "planetary inscription" in the Theatre at Miletus a late Christian Protective charm;  Unrecognised Biblical quatations in Syrian and Mesopotamian Inscription00aBible.pNew TestamentxAntiquities.1 aStrachan, Lionel Richard Mortimer,d1876-etranslator.08iOnline version:aDeissmann, Adolf, 1866-1937.sLicht vom Osten. English.tLight from the ancient East; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world.bNew and completely rev. ed. with eighty-five illustrations from the latest German ed.dGrand Rapids, Mich. : Baker Book House, 1978w(OCoLC)767558639