Brad Bitner
Westminster Seminary California, Biblical Studies, Faculty Member
- New Testament, Greek Language, Political Theology, History, Ancient History, Sociology, and 74 moreRoman Law, Early Judaism (2nd Temple, Greco-Roman), Hermeneutics, Early Christianity, Biblical Studies, Old Testament, Greek Epigraphy, Pauline Literature, Synoptic Gospels, Biography, Giorgio Agamben, Second Temple Judaism, Covenant Theology, Biblical Theology, The Letter to the Hebrews, History of Biblical Interpretation, Rabbinics, Lexicography, Roman provincial administration, New Testament and Christian Origins, Apostle Paul and the Pauline Letters, Christian Origins, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Roman Epigraphy, Biblical Interpretation, Bible, Luke-Acts, Ancient Roman Numismatics, Epistle to the Hebrews, Pauline Theology, Biblical Exegesis, New Testament Textual Criticism, Augustus, Roman Imperial Ideology, Greek Grammar, Roman Provincial Coinage, Kingdom of God, Greek Lexicography, Geerhardus Vos, Biblical Studies, Pauline Epistles, First and Second Corinthians, Apostolic Fathers, Ephesos, 1 Corinthians, Johannes Weiss, Acts of the Apostles, Dictionaries, Greek Patristics, Epistle to Diognetus, Erik Peterson, New Testament Greek, History of Reception of Biblical Texts, Lexicografía Griega, Two Kingdoms, Two Kingdoms Theology, Res Gestae, Acclamations, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Early Christian Papyri and Inscriptions, Ancient Greek Vocabulary, DIccionarios De Griego Antiguo, Reformed Biblical Theology, Reformed theology, Roman Provincial Numismatics, Walter Benjamin, Heresiology, Heresy and Orthodoxy, Patristics, Political Philosophy, Political Theory, Bilingual inscriptions, Epistle to the Romans, 2 Corinthians, Pastoral Epistles, and Theological Educationedit
This volume examines 1 Corinthians 1-4 within first-century politics, demonstrating the significance of Corinth's constitution to the interpretation of Paul's letter. Bradley J. Bitner shows that Paul carefully considered the Roman... more
This volume examines 1 Corinthians 1-4 within first-century politics, demonstrating the significance of Corinth's constitution to the interpretation of Paul's letter. Bradley J. Bitner shows that Paul carefully considered the Roman colonial context of Corinth, which underlay numerous ecclesial conflicts. Roman politics, however, cannot account for the entire shape of Paul's response. Bridging the Hellenism-Judaism divide that has characterised much of Pauline scholarship, Bitner argues that Paul also appropriated Jewish-biblical notions of covenant. Epigraphical and papyrological evidence indicates that his chosen content and manner are best understood with reference to an ecclesial politeia informed by a distinctively Christ-centred political theology. This emerges as a 'politics of thanksgiving' in 1 Corinthians 1:4-9 and as a 'politics of construction' in 3:5-4:5, where Paul redirects gratitude and glory to God in Christ. This innovative account of Paul's political theology offers fresh insight into his pastoral strategy among nascent Gentile-Jewish assemblies.
Research Interests: Christianity, Roman History, New Testament, History of Christianity, Roman Law, and 52 morePreaching, Early Christianity, Biblical Studies, Greek Epigraphy, Pauline Literature, Biblical Theology, History of Biblical Interpretation, Ecclesiology, Deuteronomistic History, Prophets, Political Theology, Latin Epigraphy, Biblical Archaeology, Pastoral Theology, New Testament and Christian Origins, Apostle Paul and the Pauline Letters, Roman Epigraphy, Biblical Interpretation, Bible, Wisdom Literature, Pauline Theology, Corinth, Biblical Exegesis, Corinthia, New Testament Textual Criticism, New Testament Theology, Greek and Roman Epigraphy, Biblical Literature and Hermeneutics (esp. New Testament), New testament exegesis, Dead Sea Scrolls, Greek New Testament, Paul, Biblical Studies, Pauline Epistles, First and Second Corinthians, Apostle Paul, New Testament Studies, Pauline studies, Ot, Pentateuch, Old Testament and New Testament theology and Biblical studies, with an in-depth focus on exegetical and critical issues, New Testament Greek Grammar, Pauline Epistles, The Use of the Old Testament in the New, Biblical Hermeneutics, 1 Corinthians, Pauline Theology, Biblical Hermenutics, Christian theology and biblical studies, Roman Corinth, Pauline Letters, New Testament Greek, Early Christian Papyri and Inscriptions, New Testament and Archaeology, and NT
This article considers the contribution of 1 Corinthians to debates about the nature of πίστις in Paul. In conversation with studies of 1 Corinthians that argue for relational, participatory, and communal constructions of πίστις, this... more
This article considers the contribution of 1 Corinthians to debates about the nature of πίστις in Paul. In conversation with studies of 1 Corinthians that argue for relational, participatory, and communal constructions of πίστις, this article engages in a close exegesis of key passages of the epistle to highlight receiving, boasting, and discerning as important and salient features of faith.
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Gerhardus Vos’s lesser-known first inaugural address (1888) entailed a theological vision. Its subject was not biblical theology, but theological method and theological education for Reformed ministry. Vos first identifies cultural,... more
Gerhardus Vos’s lesser-known first inaugural address (1888) entailed a theological vision. Its subject was not biblical theology, but theological method and theological education for Reformed ministry. Vos first identifies cultural, theological, and curricular challenges to the kind of theological formation he thinks students need. Then he exemplifies the kind of confessional framework, theological patterns of thinking, and historical humility that he envisions as necessary for ministry that bears lasting, robust gospel fruit for the church. Vos’s vision provokes us to reconsider the shape and aims of contemporary theological education as well as the relationship between systematic and biblical theology in his theological method.
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Research Interests: Gnosticism, History, Sociology, Jewish Studies, Theology, and 63 moreHebrew Language, New Testament, Hebrew Bible, Jewish Mysticism, Early Judaism (2nd Temple, Greco-Roman), Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion), Academic Writing, Early Christianity, Biblical Studies, Old Testament, Pauline Literature, Biography, Second Temple Judaism, History of Religions, Biblical Theology, Deuteronomistic History, Prophets, Dead Sea Scrolls Nag Hammadi Codices, Biblical Archaeology, Rabbinic Literature, New Testament and Christian Origins, Apostle Paul and the Pauline Letters, Christian Origins, Historical Jesus, Biblical Interpretation, Bible, Wisdom Literature, Dead Sea Scrolls (Religion) (Religion), Second Temple Judaism (Religion), Hellenistic Judaism, Biblical Exegesis, Ancient Judaism, Formative Judaism, Second Temple Period, Parting of the Ways, Qumran, New testament exegesis, Dead Sea Scrolls, Early Judaism, Paul, Biblical Studies, Pauline Epistles, First and Second Corinthians, Greco-Roman World, New Testament Studies, Ot, Pentateuch, Ritual Purity, 1 Corinthians, Greek Patristics, Hebrew Bible/Old Testament, Pauline Letters, History of Reception of Biblical Texts, The Synoptic Gospels, Ancient Rhetoric and Poetics, Early Christian Papyri and Inscriptions, Aramaic and Targum, Ethiopian Christianity, NT, History of Judaism In Antiquity, Conversion In Antiquity, Ethnicity In Antiquity, Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity, Jewish and Christian Apocryphal Texts, and Jewish and Christian Apocalypticism
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Research Interests: New Testament, Early Christianity, Biblical Studies, Numismatics, Biblical Archaeology, and 11 moreNew Testament and Christian Origins, Apostle Paul and the Pauline Letters, Biblical Interpretation, Roman numismatics and archaeology, Ancient Greek Numismatics, Ancient Roman Numismatics, Corinth, Biblical Exegesis, New testament exegesis, New Testament Studies, and 1 Corinthians
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In appealing a decision of a previous provincial governor, the city of Chios was able to exploit the existing documentary record and Roman respect for early precedents and persuade the new governor to overturn his predecessor’s finding.
