James Starr & Troels Engberg-Pedersen 
Early Christian Paraenesis in Context [PDF ebook] 

Troels Engberg-Pedersen/James M. Starr: Introduction

I. What is Paraenesis?

Popkes: Paraenesis in the New Testament: An Exercise in Conceptuality · Troels Engberg-Pedersen: The Concept of Paraenesis · James M. Starr: Was Paraenesis for Beginners? · Diana Swancutt: Paraenesis in Light of Protrepsis: Troubling the Typical Dichotomy

II. Paraenesis in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World

Johannes Thomas: The Paraenesis of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs between Torah and Jewish Wisdom · Stephen Westerholm: Four Maccabees: A Paraenetic Address? · H.D. Betz: Paraenesis and the Concept of God According to Oratio XII (Olympikos) of Dio of Prusa

III. Paraenesis in the New Testament

Reidar Aasgaard: ‘Brotherly Advice’: Christian Siblingship and New Testament Paraenesis · Anders Klostergaard Petersen: Paraenesis in Pauline Scholarship and in Paul — An Intricate Relationship · Abraham J. Malherbe: Paraenesis in the Epistle to Titus · Walter Übelacker: Paraenesis or Paraklesis — Hebrews as a Test-Case · Lauri Thurén: Motivation as the Core of Paraenesis — Remarks on Peter and Paul as Persuaders · Karl Olav Sandnes: Revised Conventions in Early Christian Paraenesis — ‘Working Good’ in 1 Peter · Jonas Holmstrand: Is There Paraenesis in 1 John?

IV. Early Christian Paraenesis after the New Testament

Clarence E. Glad: The Rhetoric of Moral Exhortation in Clement’s Pedagogue · David Hellholm and Vemund Blomkvist: Parainesis as an Ancient Genre-Designation: The Case of the ‘Euthalian Apparatus’ and the ‘Affiliated Argumenta’ · Samuel Rubenson: Wisdom, Paraenesis and the Roots of Monasticism

Troels Engberg-Pedersen is Professor of New Testament at the Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University, Denmark. James M. Starr is Lecturer of Exegetic Theology (New Testament) at Johannelund Theological Seminary, Uppsala, Sweden.