TY  - BOOK
AU  - Deissmann,Adolf
AU  - Strachan,Lionel Richard Mortimer
TI  - Light from the ancient East ; the New Testament illustrated by recently discovered texts of the Graeco-Roman world
SN  - 0801028868
PY  - 1978///
CY  - Grand Rapids, Mich.
PB  - Baker Book House
KW  - Bible
KW  - New Testament
KW  - Antiquities
N1  - The 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
; Appendices: 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 Inscription
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