The People Called: The Growth of Community in the BibleIn this unique work, Paul Hanson traces the concept of "community" from its early biblical origins through the end of the apostolic age. This edition includes a chapter devoted to the contemporary implications of this concept and in his new introduction, the author further explores the importance of this theme. |
Contents
III | 30 |
Exodus 1938 | 39 |
A Celebration of Israels Early Notion | 65 |
The Yahwistic Notion of Community Tested | 87 |
David and Nathan | 100 |
A Community | 127 |
Prophecy and Kingship | 136 |
Amos Attacks a Perverted Cult on Behalf | 148 |
From Ezra to | 325 |
Diverse Notions of Community in the Last | 340 |
E The Essenes | 358 |
F The Apocalyptic Community of the Dead | 364 |
G Implications of Second and First Century | 372 |
Community in the Teaching of Jesus Matthew | 382 |
A Call to Discipleship as the Primal Events | 395 |
The Birth of the Church as Response to Gods | 427 |
Israel Has Forgotten His Maker | 158 |
A New Formulation of | 167 |
The Contribution of Southern | 177 |
Crisis and Reformulation Ezekiel | 215 |
Return from Exile and Attempts to Reconstitute | 253 |
to Adversity | 269 |
The Consolidation of the Community Around | 291 |
Witnesses to an Alternative Vision Joel Ruth | 312 |
Implications | 467 |
Underlying Presuppositions and Method | 519 |
E The Historical Relationship between | 540 |
A Select List of Related Books | 547 |
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