Early Christian Paraenesis in Context

Troels Engberg-Pedersen/James M. Starr: Introduction

I. What is Paraenesis?

Popkes: Paraenesis in the New Testament: An Exercise in Conceptuality ? Troels Engberg-Pedersen: The Concept of Paraenesis ? James M. Starr: Was Paraenesis for Beginners? ? Diana Swancutt: Paraenesis in Light of Protrepsis: Troubling the Typical Dichotomy

II. Paraenesis in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World

Johannes Thomas: The Paraenesis of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs between Torah and Jewish Wisdom ? Stephen Westerholm: Four Maccabees: A Paraenetic Address? ? H.D. Betz: Paraenesis and the Concept of God According to Oratio XII (Olympikos) of Dio of Prusa

III. Paraenesis in the New Testament

Reidar Aasgaard: "Brotherly Advice": Christian Siblingship and New Testament Paraenesis ? Anders Klostergaard Petersen: Paraenesis in Pauline Scholarship and in Paul - An Intricate Relationship ? Abraham J. Malherbe: Paraenesis in the Epistle to Titus ? Walter UEbelacker: Paraenesis or Paraklesis - Hebrews as a Test-Case ? Lauri Thuren: Motivation as the Core of Paraenesis - Remarks on Peter and Paul as Persuaders ? Karl Olav Sandnes: Revised Conventions in Early Christian Paraenesis - "Working Good" in 1 Peter ? Jonas Holmstrand: Is There Paraenesis in 1 John?

IV. Early Christian Paraenesis after the New Testament

Clarence E. Glad: The Rhetoric of Moral Exhortation in Clement's Pedagogue ? David Hellholm and Vemund Blomkvist: Parainesis as an Ancient Genre-Designation: The Case of the 'Euthalian Apparatus' and the 'Affiliated Argumenta' ? Samuel Rubenson: Wisdom, Paraenesis and the Roots of Monasticism