Jerry L Sumney
Biographic Data
| ID | 1430404 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jerry L Sumney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jerry L |
| FAMILY NAME | Sumney |
| SIGNATURE | SUMNEY J L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Ferrum College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Romans 13 and the demands of empire
This article examines Rom 13:1-7, a text often used to support the practices of empires, in its original context and considers what it might say to Christians today. I show that declaring that governments are established by gods is a cultural commonplace in the first century. More specifically I identify the prophetic tradition of acknowledging that God establishes governments and simultaneously disobeying them as the tradition in which Paul stan…
Corinthians 8
Discussion of the integrity of 2 Cor 8–9 since 1985 has not seen new arguments for either reading these chapters as a unit or seeing two letters in these chapters, and the several decades before that saw no real new arguments either. In this essay, I argue that there are two letters in chapters 8–9, but their boundaries are not the same as the chapter designations. Rather, finding 8:16–9:5 as a separate letter provides a solution that accounts fo…
The Teachings of Silvanus as a Gnostic work
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The Teachings of Silvanus as a Gnostic work
Romans 13 and the demands of empire
This article examines Rom 13:1-7, a text often used to support the practices of empires, in its original context and considers what it might say to Christians today. I show that declaring that governments are established by gods is a cultural commonplace in the first century. More specifically I identify the prophetic tradition of acknowledging that God establishes governments and simultaneously disobeying them as the tradition in which Paul stan…
Corinthians 8
Discussion of the integrity of 2 Cor 8–9 since 1985 has not seen new arguments for either reading these chapters as a unit or seeing two letters in these chapters, and the several decades before that saw no real new arguments either. In this essay, I argue that there are two letters in chapters 8–9, but their boundaries are not the same as the chapter designations. Rather, finding 8:16–9:5 as a separate letter provides a solution that accounts fo…
Philosophy (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (2 works) · History (2 works) · Ancient history (1 works) · Augustinian Studies and Theology (1 works) · Empire (1 works) · Engineering (1 works) · Historical and Linguistic Studies (1 works) · Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (1 works)