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1 - Abbreviations [Seite 15]
2 - Introduction: The Logic and History of Deification in Pauline Research [Seite 17]
2.1 - Transcendence and Deification in Hellenistic Religion [Seite 17]
2.2 - The "Otherness" of Deification [Seite 22]
2.3 - Paul and Deification [Seite 26]
2.4 - History of Research [Seite 29]
2.5 - Recent Research on Paul and Deification [Seite 37]
2.6 - Results [Seite 43]
2.7 - The Method of this Study [Seite 46]
2.8 - Conclusion: A Working Definition of Deification, and Issues of Clarification [Seite 47]
3 - Part I: The Context of Deification in Paul [Seite 51]
3.1 - Chapter 1: What is a God? Defining Divinity in the Greco-Roman World [Seite 53]
3.1.1 - Introduction [Seite 53]
3.1.2 - Formulating the Right Question [Seite 54]
3.1.3 - Divinity in the Greco-Roman World [Seite 57]
3.1.4 - Immortality [Seite 60]
3.1.5 - Power [Seite 62]
3.1.6 - Power, Divinity, and Kings [Seite 63]
3.1.7 - Ancient Jewish Conceptions of Divinity [Seite 66]
3.1.8 - The Pauline Understanding of Divinity [Seite 71]
3.1.9 - Conclusion [Seite 73]
3.2 - Chapter 2: Survey of Deification: Assimilation to Specific Deities [Seite 74]
3.2.1 - Introduction [Seite 74]
3.2.2 - The Greek Vocabulary of Deification [Seite 74]
3.2.3 - Evaluation [Seite 77]
3.2.4 - Deification in Homer [Seite 78]
3.2.5 - Deification in Hesiod, Pindar, and the Homeric Poets [Seite 79]
3.2.6 - Historical Precursors to Ruler Cult [Seite 82]
3.2.7 - Deification in the Ruler Cult [Seite 84]
3.2.8 - Philip II [Seite 84]
3.2.9 - Demetrius Poliorcetes [Seite 87]
3.2.10 - Ruler Cult in Ptolemaic Egypt [Seite 90]
3.2.11 - Ptolemaic Assimilation to Dionysus [Seite 93]
3.2.12 - Background on Dionysus-Osiris [Seite 93]
3.2.13 - The Beginnings of Roman Ruler Cult: Marc Antony's Assimilation to Dionysus [Seite 97]
3.2.14 - Conclusion [Seite 101]
3.3 - Chapter 3 : The Jewish Roots of Deification [Seite 102]
3.3.1 - Introduction: Jews and Greeks on the Boundaries Between the Human and the Divine [Seite 102]
3.3.2 - The Biblical Roots of Deification [Seite 113]
3.3.3 - The Meaning of Iconic Similarity [Seite 116]
3.3.4 - The Glorified Moses in Philo [Seite 122]
3.3.5 - Sharing God's Divine Sovereignty: The Divinity of Israelite Kings [Seite 125]
3.3.6 - Conclusion [Seite 131]
4 - Part II Sharing the Divine Identity [Seite 133]
4.1 - Chapter 4: Divine Corporeality and the Pneumatic Body [Seite 135]
4.1.1 - Introduction [Seite 135]
4.1.2 - The Bodies of the Gods [Seite 136]
4.1.3 - From the Glory Body to the Pneumatic Body [Seite 143]
4.1.4 - The Problem at Corinth [Seite 144]
4.1.5 - The Nature of Paul's Pneumatic Body [Seite 145]
4.1.6 - Comparison of the Pauline Pneumatic Body with the Stoic Soul [Seite 153]
4.1.7 - Celestial Immortality [Seite 156]
4.1.8 - Celestial Immortality in Jewish Sources [Seite 163]
4.1.9 - Paul and Celestial Immortality [Seite 164]
4.2 - Chapter 5: Divine Corporeality and Deification [Seite 168]
4.2.1 - Introduction [Seite 168]
4.2.2 - Celestial Immortality as Deification [Seite 168]
4.2.3 - The Divinity of the Heavens [Seite 170]
4.2.4 - The Human Pneuma as a Divine Reality [Seite 174]
4.2.5 - Deification in Paul [Seite 177]
4.2.6 - Connaturality [Seite 182]
4.2.7 - Conclusion [Seite 185]
4.3 - Chapter 6: Deification and the Cosmic Rule of the Saints [Seite 188]
4.3.1 - Introduction [Seite 188]
4.3.2 - The Battle of the Gods: Cultural Antecedents [Seite 189]
4.3.3 - Paul's Myth of Battling Gods [Seite 192]
4.3.4 - The Rule of the Saints in Pre-Christian Judaism [Seite 195]
4.3.5 - Paul and the Promise of Eschatological Lordship [Seite 198]
4.3.6 - Results: The Question of Deification [Seite 204]
4.3.7 - Conclusion [Seite 206]
4.4 - Chapter 7: Paul and Moral Assimilation to God [Seite 209]
4.4.1 - Introduction [Seite 209]
4.4.2 - Platonic Assimilation to God [Seite 211]
4.4.3 - Virtue and Deification [Seite 212]
4.4.4 - The Mode of Deification through Moral Virtue [Seite 216]
4.4.5 - Paul, Virtue, Self-Transcendence, and the Question of Deification [Seite 222]
4.4.6 - Deepening the Comparison [Seite 225]
4.4.7 - Paul and Assimilation to God [Seite 228]
4.4.8 - 2 Corinthians 3:18 as Moral Assimilation to God [Seite 232]
4.4.9 - Conclusion [Seite 239]
5 - Part III: Addressing the Challenges: Monotheism and Divine Transcendence [Seite 243]
5.1 - Chapter 8: Monotheism and Divine Multiplicity [Seite 245]
5.1.1 - Problematizing Exclusivist Monotheism [Seite 247]
5.1.2 - Towards a Theory of Ancient Jewish Monotheism [Seite 255]
5.1.3 - The Status of Other Numina [Seite 261]
5.1.4 - Paul and Summodeism [Seite 264]
5.1.5 - The Meaning of God's Oneness in Ancient Judaism [Seite 267]
5.1.6 - Conclusion [Seite 272]
5.2 - Chapter 9: Creation and the Objection of Absolute Transcendence [Seite 274]
5.2.1 - Introduction [Seite 274]
5.2.2 - Shareable and Unshareable Divinity [Seite 278]
5.2.3 - Mediate Divinity and Participation [Seite 279]
5.2.4 - Non-creating and Created Gods [Seite 282]
5.2.5 - God the Creator [Seite 286]
5.2.6 - The Question of Idolatry [Seite 290]
5.2.7 - Conclusion [Seite 290]
5.2.8 - Excursus: Worship and Divinity [Seite 291]
6 - Conclusion [Seite 298]
6.1 - Limitations and Clarifications [Seite 299]
6.2 - Results [Seite 315]
7 - Bibliography [Seite 317]
7.1 - Primary Sources [Seite 317]
7.2 - Secondary Sources [Seite 321]
8 - Subject Index [Seite 342]