@Book{525122125,
author="Gordley, Matthew E.",
title="Colossian hymn in context: an exegesis in light of Jewish and Greco-Roman hymnic and epistolary conventions",
series="Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament / 2 228",
year="2007",
publisher="Mohr Siebeck",
address="T{\"u}bingen",
keywords="Criticism, interpretation, etc; Hymns, Early Christian; Hymns, Greek (Classical); Jewish hymns; Hymne",
abstract="The suggestion that the New Testament contains citations of early Christological hymns has long been a controversial issue in New Testament scholarship. As a way of advancing this facet of New Testament research, Matthew E. Gordley examines the Colossian hymn (Col 1:15-20) in light of its cultural and epistolary contexts. As a result of a broad comparative analysis, he claims that Col 1:15-20 is a citation of a prose-hymn which represents a fusion of Jewish and Greco-Roman conventions for praising an exalted figure. A review of hymns in the literature of Second Temple Judaism demonstrates that the Colossian hymn owes a number of features to Jewish modes of praise. Likewise, a review of hymns in the broader Greco-Roman world demonstrates that the Colossian hymn is equally indebted to conventions used for praising the divine in the Greco-Roman tradition. In light of these hymnic traditions of antiquity, the analysis of the form and content of the Colossian hymn shows how the passage fits well into a Greco-Roman context, and indicates that it is best understood as a quasi-philosophical prose-hymn cited in the context of a paraenetic letter. Finally, in view of ancient epistolary and rhetorical theory and practice, an analysis of the role of the hymn in Colossians suggests that the hymn serves a number of significant rhetorical functions throughout the remainder of the letter.",
note="Matthew E. Gordley",
note="Bibliography p. [271] - 280",
note="Teilw. zugl.: Notre Dame, Ind., Univ., Diss., 2006",
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isbn="3161492552",
language="English"
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