TY  - BOOK
AU  - Frey,Jörg
AU  - Levison,John R.
TI  - The Holy Spirit, inspiration, and the cultures of antiquity: multidisciplinary perspectives 
T2  - Ekstasis,
SN  - 9783110310269
AV  - BT121.3 .H67 2014eb
U1  - 231/.3 23
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter
KW  - Holy Spirit
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - Theologie, Christentum
KW  - Saint-Esprit
KW  - Histoire des doctrines
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Christian Theology
KW  - General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - fast
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; The origins of early Christian pneumatology: on the rediscovery and reshaping of the history of religions quest -- The spirit of stoicism -- Plutarch and Pentecost: an exploration in interdisciplinary collaboration -- "Even before his birth he will be filled with the Holy Spirit" -- Luke 1:15 in the spectrum of theological and medical discourses of early Christianity -- The infusion of the Spirit: the meaning of eufusaō in John 20:22-23 -- Ruaḥ and the beholding of God -- from Ezekiel's vision of the divine chariot to Merkaba mysticism -- Historical origins of the early Christian concept of the Holy Spirit -- Speech and spirit: Paul and the Maskil as inspired interpreters of Scripture -- Philo of Alexandria's understanding of pneuma in Deus 33-50 -- Pneuma and the beholding of God: reading Paul in the context of Philonic mystical traditions -- Spirit in relationship -- pneumatology in the Gospel of John -- How did the Spirit become a person?
N2  - Early Christian claims to the Holy Spirit arose in a vibrant cultural matrix that included Stoicism, Jewish mysticism, the Dead Sea Scrolls, Greco-Roman medicine, and the perspectives of Plutarch. In a range of articles, this multidisciplinary volume discovers in these texts rich cultural connections related to inspiration and the Holy Spirit. Essential reading for scholars of Judaism and the New Testament, as well as classicists and theologians --
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