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What does it mean that the believers are ‘in Christ’ (Rom 8:1; 2 Cor 5:17 etc.)? The phrase has become so common to Christian discourse that it obscures the original meaning. By analysing key passages and stripping back the interpretive layers, this book portrays ‘in Christ’ in the light of Greek language usage. Insights from metaphor theory, onomastics, and ritual theory further the investigation. The book also addresses prepositional phrases like ‘with Christ’ and how ‘in Christ’ developed in the deutero-Pauline letters. This comprehensive perspective illuminates a crucial early-Christian phrase and how believers viewed their relationship to Christ.
Price: $156.00
Pages: 468
Publisher: Brill
Imprint: Brill
Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements
Publication Date:
24 January 2024
ISBN: 9789004685284
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament, RELIGION / Prayerbooks / Christian
“Beyer demonstrates in the context of the ancient Greek-speaking world how Paul’s language could have been readily intelligible as meaning determined by Christ, and her exegetical chapters demonstrate some of the foremost ways that believers are determined by Christ. Beyer’s encyclopedia-like analysis of all the key prepositional constructions related to “being in Christ” in Paul’s epistles is replete with insightful, exegetical gems. [...] Dr. Beyer is to be commended for writing not only such a learned and insightful analysis of a central Pauline theme but one that is such a joy to continue thinking with and alongside of.”
– Joshua Roy Heavin, in: Bulletin for Biblical Research 35/2 (2025).
– Joshua Roy Heavin, in: Bulletin for Biblical Research 35/2 (2025).
Barbara Beyer, Dr. theol. (Berlin 2020), is research assistant in the New Testament Department of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. She studied Protestant Theology as well as Library and Information Science at Humboldt University in Berlin.