Deacons and Diakonia in Early Christianity

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The First Two Centuries

Bart J. Koet Edwina Murphy Esko Ryökäs(Herausgeber*in)

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Erschienen im Februar 2019

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Cover
Titel
Munib Younan: Foreword
Contents
Introduction
Bart J. Koet, Edwina Murphy and Esko Ryökäs: Assessing the Role and Function of an Assistant: The Deacon in the First Two Centuries of Christianity
1. How Important is the Second Leader?
2. Deacons and Deaconesses in the Twenty-First Century: Differences and Common Roots?
3. The Need for Further Research Due to New Philological Ideas
4. The Aim of This Collection
5. New Life from Old Texts
Biblical Sources
Peter-Ben Smit: Exegetical Notes on Mark 10:42-45: Who Serves Whom?
1. Introduction
2. From the Old to the New Consensus
3. Narrative and Contextual Observations
4. Who is a ???????? to Whom?
5. Conclusion
John N. Collins: The Rhetorical Value of ??a???- in Matthew 25:44
1. Translating the ??a???- Verb
2. ??a???- among Other Verbs
3. The ??a???- Verb and the Modern Tradition of Diakonia
4. Disrupting the Consensus on Diakonia
5. Among "the Great Ones"
6. The Diakonia of "the Accursed"
7. Conclusion: Diakonia and Diakonie
Bart J. Koet: Luke 10:38-42 and Acts 6:1-7: A Lukan Diptych on ??a????a
1. Lexicography
2. Acts 6:1-7 as a Narrative about Ministry of the Word within the Book of Acts
3. Luke 10:38-42
4. Acts 6:1-7 as a Narrative about Ministry of the Word in Light of Luke 10:38-42
5. Conclusion: Learning and Doing in Rabbinic Judaism
Bart J. Koet: Like a Royal Wedding: On the Significance of Diakonos in John 2:1-11
1. John 2:1-11 in Short
2. Are the Diakonoi in John 2:1-11 Humble Slaves?
3. Is the Diakonos a Slave?
4. The Diakonoi in John 2:1-11
5. The Diakonoi of John 2 in the Church Fathers
6. Conclusion
Joke H. A. Brinkhof: Philip, One of the Seven in Acts (6:1-6
8:4-40
21:8)
1. Seven Men Chosen
2. Focus on Stephen and Philip
3. Stephen
4. Philip
5. The Seven Profiled by Stephen and Philip
6. Philip, Simon, Peter, and Paul
7. Philip, a Relating "Deacon" and Evangelist
8. Conclusion: Luke Underlines the Relating Function of the Seven in the Composition of the Narrative
Margaret Mowczko: What did Phoebe's Position and Ministry as ???????? of the Church at Cenchrea Involve?
1. Introducing Phoebe
2. "Our Sister"
3. "A Benefactor of Many"
4. Paul's Use of ????????
5. Women Ministers in the Gospels
6. Phoebe and Paul's Letter to the Romans
7. Was Phoebe an Official Deacon?
8. Conclusion
Anni Hentschel: Paul's Apostleship and the Concept of ??a????a in 2 Corinthians
1. Usage of the Terms ?p?st???? and ????????
2. Paul as Apostle
3. Conflict over Paul's Preaching in Corinth
4. Conclusion
Lauri Thurén: Divine Headhunting? The Function of the Qualifications of Deacons in 1 Tim 3:8-13
1. The Historical Setting
2. The Antagonists as Bad Deacons
3. The Function of the Qualifications
4. Particular Issues
5. Conclusion: "How Little, Really, We Learn"
The Earliest Christian (Extra-Biblical) Sources
John Granger Cook: Pliny's Tortured Ministrae: Female Deacons in the Ancient Church?
1. Pliny's Text: His Understanding of Ministrae
2. Lexicographical Research on Ministra
3. The Literary Evidence
4. The Inscriptional Evidence: The Cult of Bona Dea
5. Inscriptional Evidence: Other Cults and Associations
6. Conclusion
Bart J. Koet: The Bishop and His Deacons. Ignatius of Antioch's View on Ministry: Two-fold or Three-fold?
1. Ignatius of Antioch as the First Witness to the Threefold Ministry?
2. Two-fold Ministry before Ignatius of Antioch
3. The Special Relation between ?p?s??p?? and ???????? in the Ignatian Literature
4. What Do Bishops and Deacons Do and How Is Their Relationship Typified?
5. The Deacon as the S??d????? of the Bishop
6. Ignatius' Qualifications for Deacons
7. Conclusion
John N. Collins: ??a???- and Deacons in Clement of Alexandria
1. The Christian Culture
2. Clement's Gnostic
3. The Gnostic as "????????"
4. Modelling the Heavenly Ranks
5. The Deacon Title
6. A Heavenly Connection
7. A Hellenistic Cluster of Agent Diakonoi
8. Disciple Agents in the Model of the Teacher
9. Standard Greek Idiom
10. Conclusion: A Legacy from Clement?
Bart J. Koet: Isaiah 60:17 as a Key for Understanding the Two-fold Ministry of ?p?s??p?? and ???????? according to First Clement (1 Clem. 42:5)
1. First Clement as a Letter
2. The Structure of First Clement and the Place of 1 Clem. 40-44 within It
3. Isa 60:17 in 1 Clem. 42:5
4. Traces of Two-fold Ministry in Early Christian Literature
5. Conclusion
Mark Grundeken: What Do "Deacons" Do in the Shepherd of Hermas?
1. Introduction
2. Does Hermas Testify to the Presence of "Deacons" in the Christian Communities in Rome?
3. What Do the ???????? in Hermas Do?
4. Are the ???????? in Hermas "Helpers" of the ?p?s??p???
5. Conclusion
Clayton N. Jefford: Understanding the Concept of Deacon in the Didache
1. Original or Supplemental?
2. Limited or Wider Implications?
3. Unique in Concept or Typical?
4. Summary and Conclusion
Paul Foster: Deacons (????????) and ??a????a in the Writings of Justin and Irenaeus
1. Introduction
2. Justin on Deacons
3. Irenaeus on Deacons and ??a????a
4. Conclusion: Deacons and ??a????a in Justin and Irenaeus
Serafim Seppälä: Deacons in Acts of Thomas and Related Early Syriac Literature
1. Some Background Remarks
2. Acts of Thomas as Literature
3. Vocabulary: Alternatives and Solutions
4. Servants and Deacons in the Earliest Syriac Literature
5. Deacons in Acts of Thomas: The Liturgical Function
6. The Social Role of Deacons
7. Social Challenges and Communal Ideals
8. Female Deacons in Acts of Thomas
9. Deacons in the Teaching of Addai and Acts of Mar Mari
10. Conclusion
Anni Maria Laato: Tertullian and the Deacons
1. Introduction
2. The Clergy and the Laity in Tertullian's Texts
3. The Offices and the Officeholders
4. What Did the Deacons Do and What Did They Not Do?
5. Conclusion
Bart J. Koet: Dreaming about Deacons in the Passio Perpetuae
1. Perpetua: Dreaming in Accordance with Scripture
2. Leadership in Early Christianity
3. Ministry in the Passio Perpetuae
4. Dreaming about the Clergy
5. Dreaming about the Deacon Pomponius
6. Conclusion
Anssi Voitila: Deacons in the Texts Contemporary with the New Testament (Philo of Alexandria and Josephus)
1. Philo
2. Josephus
3. Conclusion
Appendices
Abbreviations
Authors
Acknowledgements
Index of Ancient Sources
Index of Modern Authors

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