Educating early Christians through the rhetoric of hell : "weeping and gnashing of teeth" as paideia in Matthew and the early church /

Meghan Henning explores the rhetorical function of the early Christian concept of hell, drawing connections to Greek and Roman systems of education, and examining texts from the Hebrew Bible, Greek and Latin literature, the New Testament, early Christian apocalypses and patristic authors.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Henning, Meghan (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2014]
Series:	Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament. 382.
Subjects:	Bibeln. > N.T. > Matteusevangeliet. Bibel > Neues Testament. Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600 > Education. Future life > Christianity > History of doctrines. Hölle > Motiv. Frühchristentum. Literatur. Hölle. Christliche Erziehung. Rhetorik. Paideia. Unterwelt. Griechenland > Altertum. Römisches Reich. Helvetet. Fornkyrkan. Undervisning > religiösa aspekter > historia. Kristendom. Retorik > religiösa aspekter > historia. 30-600

Table of Contents:

The history of hellish rhetoric
Death, judgment, and the abode of the dead as malleable rhetorical tools in the Hebrew Bible
Learning from the dead : Hades as an expression of paideia in Greek and Latin literature
Periēgēsis? : the journey through the places of the dead in Jewish apocalyptic literature
A choice between two ways : the rhetoric of eternal punishment in the New Testament
The pedagogical role of eschatological judgment, eternal punishment, and the afterlife in Matthew
The pedagogical function of hell in the early Christian apocalypses and the early church
Conclusion : the landscape of hell and the cultivation of early Christianity.