Heavenly perspective

Smith, Ian K.

Heavenly perspective a study of the apostle Paul's response to a Jewish mystical movement at Colossae / [electronic resource] : Ian K. Smith. - London ; New York : T & T Clark, c2006. - xxi, 254 p. ; 24 cm. - Library of New Testament studies ; 326. .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [209]-233) and indexes.

Intorduction -- Overview of scholarship -- Jewish mysticism -- Lordship of Christ : Colossians 2:6-8 -- Sufficiency of Christ : Colossians 2:9-15 -- Shadow of asceticism : Colossians 2:16-19 -- Impotence of the errorist's message : Colossians 2:20-23 -- What was the Colossian philosophy? -- Christology : the antidote to error : Colossians1:15-20 -- Bridger to exhortation : Colossians 3:1-4 -- Epistolary araenesis.


Available electronically via the Internet.

0567031071 (hbk. : alk. paper)


Bible.--Colossians--Criticism, interpretation, etc.


Mysticism--Judaism--History.

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