Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Preliminary Material / Cilliers Breytenbach and Laurence L. Welborn -- Das Schreiben der Römischen Kirche an die Korinthische aus der Zeit Domitians (I. Clemensbrief) / Harnack A. -- Early Christianity and the Greek Paideia: 1 Clement / Jaeger W. -- Studies on the So-Called First Epistle of Clement. The Literary Genre / W. C. Unnik -- Civic Concord and Cosmic Harmony. Sources of Metaphoric Mapping in 1 Clement 20:3 / C. Breytenbach -- The Preface to 1 Clement: The Rhetorical Situation and the Traditional Date / L. L. Welborn -- Index of Authors / Cilliers Breytenbach and Laurence L. Welborn -- Index of Textual References / Cilliers Breytenbach and Laurence L. Welborn -- Index of Subjects / Cilliers Breytenbach and Laurence L. Welborn -- Arbeiten zur Geschichte des Antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums / Cilliers Breytenbach and Laurence L. Welborn.

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This volume deals with the encounter of Early Christianity with Hellenistic culture, particularly with the question of ancient rhetorical influence on the First Letter of Clement. It contains reprints of two classical studies by A. von Harnack and W. Jaeger, which were seminal for the understanding the letter against a Hellenistic background, furthermore it makes an important essay of the Dutch scholar W.C. van Unnik on the literary and rhetorical genre of First Clement ( genos symbouleutikon ) for the first time available in English. The editors also present two new studies: Breytenbach describes the Hellenistic background of Clement's use of metaphorical language and Welborn questions the traditional dating of First Clement on the basis of an analysis of the rhetorical situation.

English and German.