John M G Barclay
Biographic Data
| ID | 4230064 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John M G Barclay |
| GIVEN NAMES | John M G |
| FAMILY NAME | Barclay |
| SIGNATURE | BARCLAY J M G |
| AFFILIATIONS | Durham University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8706-5522 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 18 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Does the Gospel Require Self-Sacrifice? Paul and the Reconfiguration of the Self
Some modern Christian notions of ‘self-sacrifice’ and ‘cruciformity’ abstract an ethic of self-negation from its larger theological and teleological frame. A distinctively modern and Western trajectory has shaped an ‘exclusive altruism’ where the interests of the self and of the other stand in a competitive relationship. Although Paul's letter to the Philippians has often been cited as a prime example of such an ethic, closer scrutiny reveals a l…
Rich Poverty
This article, originally presented as the Presidential Address at the 2022 SNTS Meeting in Leuven, explores the ways in which Paul configures giving and ‘wealth’, both in relation to the Macedonians and Corinthians (as contributors to the Jerusalem collection) and in relation to Christ. Drawing on the dream-interpretations of Artemidorus, it illustrates how ‘wealth’ could be understood in antiquity as performance rather than possession: one is we…
Lisa M. Bowens
It would be hard to overstate the timeliness of this book and its importance for the study of the reception of the Bible.Bowens here gathers a broad range of materials, dating from the early 18th to the mid-20th century (from the era of slavery to the civil rights movement), and the breadth is important.Here are slave petitions, conversion stories, tracts, sermons, political speeches, and autobiographies from African Americans in various conditio…
A Response to Grant Macaskill
Grant Macaskill’s essay is rich with insight into the challenges and possibilities of theological interpretation of Scripture. In many of the scholarly biblical societies in which we both move, anything approaching theological interpretation is a rarity, and is under suspicion as “churchy,” “safe,” “antihistorical,” “anachronistic,” or “controlled by dogma.” But among those biblical students and scholars who seek to find fruitful conversation wit…
Household Networks and Early Christian Economics
1 Tim 5.3–16 defines which women may be registered for financial support at church expense. It is integrated around four ‘household rules’, but is not concerned to regulate an ‘order’ or ‘office’ of widows. Rather, it clarifies that the church should not supplant households in financial matters, and should be responsible only for destitute widows who have no other network support. Since χήρα can mean ‘woman without a man’, the instructions in 5.1…
An Identity Received from God
Im Gegensatz zu jüngeren Paulusdeutungen, die den Standpunkt vertreten, dass der Apostel die Ethnizität der »Heiden« neu bestimme, zeigt eine Untersuchung zweier paulinischer Motive (»Nachkommen Abrahams« und »Annahme als Söhne«) die Vorstellung einer Identität, die von Gott geschaffen und in Israel paradigmatisch verwirklicht ist. In ihrer integrativen Differenziertheit ermöglicht diese Form der Identität die Beibehaltung ethnischer Partikularit…
The Last Years of Paul
What happened in the last few years of Paul's life? Did he ever get to Spain? How and why did he die? Were his plans fulfilled or frustrated? How should we interpret our scant sources? And what light can be shed on these matters by the social, historical, and legal context of Paul's life? In this fresh investigation of the central historical questions, a group of leading international scholars bring together their collective expertise on the apos…
The Last Years of Paul
Pauls life is one of the most fascinating stories from antiquity, and its last few years are shrouded in mystery. This volume collects essays by a group of leading experts that shed fresh light on the circumstances and events of Pauls final journeys, his experiences in Rome and his death.
In Memoriam
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Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews
The 'assemblies' founded by Paul in the cities of the Mediterranean world were in many respects comparable to the synagogues of Diaspora Jews which flourished in the same locations. The comparison illuminates many features in the social formation of the first Christians, a complex and variegated process that continued through many generations of early Christianity. In these seminal essays - some previously published, some newly written - John M.G…
In Memoriam
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I will have mercy on whom I have mercy«
5) als grundlegend für die paulinische Hoffnung für Israel und die Völker.
Judaism in the Roman World
There is Neither Old Nor Young? Early Christianity and Ancient Ideologies of Age
Instructions given to the ‘older’ and ‘younger’ in some early Christian texts prompt inquiry into the rationale for this polarity and its ideological freight. Demographics suggest that the adult population rarely contained more than two generations, and comparative study indicates that where age was marked these categories usually sufficed. Their ambiguity and flexibility made them suited to ideological deployment, legitimating the power of the ‘…
Philo on Jewish Identity and Culture
Between Athens and Jerusalem
Paul And Philo on Circumcision
Stimulated by the work of D. Boyarin, the topic of circumcision is examined in Philo ( Spec. Leg. 1.1–11; Migr. Abr. 89–93) and Paul (Rom 2.25–9). Philo limits his allegorizing tendencies in view of the conservative instincts of the Jewish community. Paul is far more radical in relation to Jewish opinion: Rom 2.29 indicates his willingness to dispense with human praise in such matters. On the other hand, his intellectual framework is far less acc…
Jewish Life and Thought among Greeks and Romans
Ethnicity and the Bible
Contemporary social theory has been much concerned with the re-assertion of ethnic identities in both Western and non-Western politics. This international collection of twenty-one essays contributes to the wider conversation by examining the construction and contestation of ethnic identities both within the Bible itself and in biblical interpretation. An introductory essay brings into focus the main themes of the book - ethnocentrism, indigenity,…
Paul, Philemon and the Dilemma of Christian Slave-Ownership
By any standards, discussion of Paul's reaction to slavery and slave-ownership is exceptionally complex and controversial. There are more than enough difficulties in attempting to grasp the true character and significance of slavery in the Graeco-Roman world of the first century, due not merely to the fragmentary and one-sided nature of our evidence but also to the deep-rooted political and philosophical commitments which influence almost every s…
Paul, Philemon and the Dilemma of Christian Slave-Ownership
By any standards, discussion of Paul's reaction to slavery and slave-ownership is exceptionally complex and controversial. There are more than enough difficulties in attempting to grasp the true character and significance of slavery in the Graeco-Roman world of the first century, due not merely to the fragmentary and one-sided nature of our evidence but also to the deep-rooted political and philosophical commitments which influence almost every s…
Ethnicity and the Bible
Contemporary social theory has been much concerned with the re-assertion of ethnic identities in both Western and non-Western politics. This international collection of twenty-one essays contributes to the wider conversation by examining the construction and contestation of ethnic identities both within the Bible itself and in biblical interpretation. An introductory essay brings into focus the main themes of the book - ethnocentrism, indigenity,…
Paul And Philo on Circumcision
Stimulated by the work of D. Boyarin, the topic of circumcision is examined in Philo ( Spec. Leg. 1.1–11; Migr. Abr. 89–93) and Paul (Rom 2.25–9). Philo limits his allegorizing tendencies in view of the conservative instincts of the Jewish community. Paul is far more radical in relation to Jewish opinion: Rom 2.29 indicates his willingness to dispense with human praise in such matters. On the other hand, his intellectual framework is far less acc…
Jewish Life and Thought among Greeks and Romans
Between Athens and Jerusalem
Philo on Jewish Identity and Culture
There is Neither Old Nor Young? Early Christianity and Ancient Ideologies of Age
Instructions given to the ‘older’ and ‘younger’ in some early Christian texts prompt inquiry into the rationale for this polarity and its ideological freight. Demographics suggest that the adult population rarely contained more than two generations, and comparative study indicates that where age was marked these categories usually sufficed. Their ambiguity and flexibility made them suited to ideological deployment, legitimating the power of the ‘…
Judaism in the Roman World
I will have mercy on whom I have mercy«
5) als grundlegend für die paulinische Hoffnung für Israel und die Völker.
Pauline Churches and Diaspora Jews
The 'assemblies' founded by Paul in the cities of the Mediterranean world were in many respects comparable to the synagogues of Diaspora Jews which flourished in the same locations. The comparison illuminates many features in the social formation of the first Christians, a complex and variegated process that continued through many generations of early Christianity. In these seminal essays - some previously published, some newly written - John M.G…
In Memoriam
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
In Memoriam
An abstract is not available for this content. As you have access to this content, full HTML content is provided on this page. A PDF of this content is also available in through the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The Last Years of Paul
What happened in the last few years of Paul's life? Did he ever get to Spain? How and why did he die? Were his plans fulfilled or frustrated? How should we interpret our scant sources? And what light can be shed on these matters by the social, historical, and legal context of Paul's life? In this fresh investigation of the central historical questions, a group of leading international scholars bring together their collective expertise on the apos…
The Last Years of Paul
Pauls life is one of the most fascinating stories from antiquity, and its last few years are shrouded in mystery. This volume collects essays by a group of leading experts that shed fresh light on the circumstances and events of Pauls final journeys, his experiences in Rome and his death.
An Identity Received from God
Im Gegensatz zu jüngeren Paulusdeutungen, die den Standpunkt vertreten, dass der Apostel die Ethnizität der »Heiden« neu bestimme, zeigt eine Untersuchung zweier paulinischer Motive (»Nachkommen Abrahams« und »Annahme als Söhne«) die Vorstellung einer Identität, die von Gott geschaffen und in Israel paradigmatisch verwirklicht ist. In ihrer integrativen Differenziertheit ermöglicht diese Form der Identität die Beibehaltung ethnischer Partikularit…
A Response to Grant Macaskill
Grant Macaskill’s essay is rich with insight into the challenges and possibilities of theological interpretation of Scripture. In many of the scholarly biblical societies in which we both move, anything approaching theological interpretation is a rarity, and is under suspicion as “churchy,” “safe,” “antihistorical,” “anachronistic,” or “controlled by dogma.” But among those biblical students and scholars who seek to find fruitful conversation wit…
Household Networks and Early Christian Economics
1 Tim 5.3–16 defines which women may be registered for financial support at church expense. It is integrated around four ‘household rules’, but is not concerned to regulate an ‘order’ or ‘office’ of widows. Rather, it clarifies that the church should not supplant households in financial matters, and should be responsible only for destitute widows who have no other network support. Since χήρα can mean ‘woman without a man’, the instructions in 5.1…
Lisa M. Bowens
It would be hard to overstate the timeliness of this book and its importance for the study of the reception of the Bible.Bowens here gathers a broad range of materials, dating from the early 18th to the mid-20th century (from the era of slavery to the civil rights movement), and the breadth is important.Here are slave petitions, conversion stories, tracts, sermons, political speeches, and autobiographies from African Americans in various conditio…
Does the Gospel Require Self-Sacrifice? Paul and the Reconfiguration of the Self
Some modern Christian notions of ‘self-sacrifice’ and ‘cruciformity’ abstract an ethic of self-negation from its larger theological and teleological frame. A distinctively modern and Western trajectory has shaped an ‘exclusive altruism’ where the interests of the self and of the other stand in a competitive relationship. Although Paul's letter to the Philippians has often been cited as a prime example of such an ethic, closer scrutiny reveals a l…
Rich Poverty
This article, originally presented as the Presidential Address at the 2022 SNTS Meeting in Leuven, explores the ways in which Paul configures giving and ‘wealth’, both in relation to the Macedonians and Corinthians (as contributors to the Jerusalem collection) and in relation to Christ. Drawing on the dream-interpretations of Artemidorus, it illustrates how ‘wealth’ could be understood in antiquity as performance rather than possession: one is we…
Philosophy (16 works) · Biblical Studies and Interpretation (15 works) · History (12 works) · Art (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Theology (8 works) · Judaism (7 works) · Law (7 works) · Political science (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works)