Paul and the gift - Barclay, John M. G. (Grand Rapids, MI William B Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015)
THE MULTIPLE MEANINGS OF GIFT AND GRACE. The Anthropology and History of the Gift -- The Perfections of Gift/Grace -- Interpreting Paul on Grace: Shifting Patterns of Perfection -- DIVINE GIFT IN SECOND TEMPLE JERUSALEM. The Wisdom of Solomon -- Philo of Alexandria -- The Qumran Hodayot -- Pseudo-Philo, Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum -- 4 Ezra -- The Diverse Dynamics of Grace in Second Temple Judaism -- GALATIANS: THE CHRIST-GIFT AND THE RECALIBRATION OF WORTH. Configuring Galatians -- The Christ-Gift and the Recalibration of Norms (Galatians 1-2) -- The Christ-Gift, the Law, and the Promise (Galatians 3:1-5:12, with 6:11-18) -- The New Community as the Expression of the Gift (Galatians 5:13-6:10) -- ROMANS: ISRAEL, THE GENTILES, AND GOD'S CREATIVE GIFT. The Creative Gift and Its Fitting Result (Romans 1:1-5:11) -- New Life in Dying Bodies: Grace and the Construction of a Christian Habitus (Romans 5:12-8:39; 12:1-15:13) -- Israel, Christ, and the Creative Mercy of God (Romans 9-11).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 583-619) and indexes.
Keywords: Bible. -- Theology; Grace (Theology) -- Biblical teaching