Greetings.
Depending on a student’s background and preparation, making a doctoral dissertation can be a piece of pie or a gargantuan task. Fortunately for me, my professor-adviser-counselor, my Doktorvater, generously guided and supported me althroughout my writing years.
In my case, I wanted to look for a way to talk about the biblical commandment on parents/elders which would not look intimidating to the non-specialist (i.e., on biblical studies).
This list of contents was what I was able to do. The main parts follow, and the complete list with the subparts are below.
- Preliminaries
- Introduction
- Part 1. The Biblical Period: From the Old Testament to the New Testament (please see a note regarding Part 1’s title HERE)
- Part 2. The Period of the New Testament Formation (how this Part was put together is talked about HERE)
- Part 3. The Church Fathers: How They Treated the Commandment to Honor Parents
- Part 4. The Middle Ages: The Family Against Its Social Background and How the Elders of Society Were Treated
- Part 5. The Reformation and Early Modern Era
- Part 6. Industrial Revolution and Modernity
- Part 7. Summary, Synthesis and Conclusion
- BIBLIOGRAPHY (This bibliography has more than 400 entries, less than 4% of which are online sources.)
[You may also download a PDF copy of it all here, or you may access the scanned Table of Contents from the university library in Regensburg—just look for the access-link on the catalog page, which looks like this, the icon indicated by the arrow:
Citation, for my dissertation:
Siacor, Mona Lisa. The Significance of the Elterngebot: A Biblical, Historical, and Systematic Investigation. Iloilo City, Philippines: Central Philippine University Press, 2017.
Notes on a couple of terms I used:
The Elterngebot is the biblical commandment on parents, to honor them, in Exodus 20:12 and Deuteronomy 5:16.
The Decalogue is the Ten Commandments (from deka, Greek for ten, and logos, which means word).
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preliminaries
A. Existing Works on the Decalogue’s Commandment to Honor Parents
B. The Objective of This Investigation
Introduction
Part 1. The Biblical Period: From the Old Testament to the New Testament (please see a note regarding Part 1’s title HERE)
1.1.1 The Israelites
1.1.2 The Family in Ancient Israel
1.1.3 The Land
Chapter 1.2 Introduction and History of the Decalogue
1.2.1 The Number of Statements in the Decalogue
1.2.1.1 The Numbering of the Ten Commandments
1.2.2 Authorship of the Decalogue
1.2.3 Earliest Form of the Decalogue
1.2.4 Agreement Between God and Israel
1.2.5 The Place of the Decalogue Among the Old Testament Laws
Chapter 1.3 Significant Scholarship on the Origin of the Decalogue
1.3.1 Mowinckel: Cult
1.3.2 Alt: Festivals
1.3.3 Mendenhall: Treaty
1.3.4 Gerstenberger: Clan/Family
1.3.5 Rowley: Kenite Origin
Chapter 1.4 Conclusion
Chapter 1.5 The Division of the Decalogue Between the Two Tablets and the Significance of the Placement of the Elterngebot Within This Division
Chapter 1.6 Similar Statements to the Elterngebot in the Old Testament
1.6.1 Among the Law Codes and the Other ‘decalogues’
1.6.1.1 Deuteronomy 27:15-26
1.6.1.2 Exodus 34: 14-26 [Ritual Decalogue]
1.6.1.3 Leviticus 18–20
1.6.1.4 Exodus 21:15, 17 and Deuteronomy 21:18-21
1.6.2 The Elterngebot in Wisdom Literature
1.6.2.1 In Ecclesiastes and Job
1.6.2.2 In Proverbs
1.6.2.3 In Psalms
1.6.3 Conclusion
Part 2. The Period of the New Testament Formation
Chapter 2.1 Social Background
Chapter 2.2 The Greco-Roman Influence
Chapter 2.3 The Family in the Greco-Roman World
Chapter 2.4 The Beginnings of Classical Judaism
Chapter 2.5 The Elterngebot in the Deuterocanonicals
Chapter 2.6 Early Rabbinic Literature and the Elterngebot
Chapter 2.7 Honoring Parents in the New Testament
2.7.1 The “Family” of Jesus
Chapter 2.8 The Gospels and Epistles
2.8.1 Investigating Three Important Themes in the Gospels Related to the Elterngebot
2.8.1.1 The Prevailing Prominence of the Elterngebot
2.8.1.2 The Elterngebot Taken as a Point in an Argument with the Prevailing Religious Authorities
2.8.1.3 The Elterngebot as Part of Jesus’ Teachings
2.8.2 In Colossians and Ephesians
2.8.2.1 Introduction
2.8.2.2 The Household Codes in Colossians and Ephesians
2.8.2.3 (Die) Haustafel in Colossians
2.8.2.4 (Die) Haustafel in Ephesians
2.8.2.5 A Consolidated Overview
Chapter 2.9 Conclusion
Part 3. The Church Fathers: How They Treated the Commandment to Honor Parents
Chapter 3.1 Introduction to the Church Fathers
Chapter 3.2 The Elterngebot During the Period of the Church Fathers: A General Overview
Chapter 3.3 The Elterngebot During the Period of the Apostolic and Ante-Nicene Fathers
3.3.1 Clement of Alexandria
3.3.2 Tertullian
3.3.3 Cyprian of Carthage
3.3.4 Constitutions of the Holy Apostles
3.3.5 Pseudo-Matthew
3.3.6 Origen
3.3.7 Gregory Thaumaturgus
3.3.8 Conclusion
Chapter 3.4 Post-Nicene Trends
3.4.1 Augustine
3.4.2 John Chrysostom
3.4.3 Conclusion
Part 4. The Middle Ages: The Family Against Its Social Background and How the Elders of Society Were Treated
Chapter 4.1 Introduction
Chapter 4.2 Early Medieval Period (From the “Fall” of Rome Until Before 1000 AD)
4.2.1 Societal Background and the Family
4.2.2 Religiosity and the Church
Chapter 4.3 High Medieval Period: Around 1000–1300 AD
4.3.1 Thomas Aquinas
Chapter 4.4 Conclusion
Part 5. The Reformation and Early Modern Era
Chapter 5.1 Background and Societal Upheavals
Chapter 5.2 Early Modernity and Protestantism
5.2.1 Luther’s Large Catechism
5.2.2 The Elterngebot in Contemporaneous Literature
5.2.2.1 Calvin’s Institutes
5.2.2.2 The Catechism of the Council of Trent (1566 AD)
Chapter 5.3 Summary
Part 6. Industrial Revolution and Modernity
Chapter 6.1 Characteristics of this Period and How Families Were Affected
Chapter 6.2 Problems Plaguing the Modern Family
Chapter 6.3 Current Views on the Commandment to Honor Parents
6.3.1 Catechisms Used Today
6.3.1.1 Lutheran: Protestant Catechism for Adults
6.3.1.2 Roman Catholic Catechisms
6.3.1.2.1 Catechism of the Catholic Church
6.3.1.2.2 Pope Francis’ Exhortation
6.3.1.2.3 United States Catholic Catechism for Adults
6.3.1.3 Anglican: To Be A Christian—An Anglican Catechism (2014)
6.3.1.4 Reformed: The Book of Confessions
6.3.1.4.1 The Shorter Catechism
6.3.1.4.2 The Larger Catechism
6.3.2 Contemporary Views of the Elterngebot by Selected Scholars
6.3.2.1 Werner Elert
6.3.2.2 Peter Brunner
6.3.2.3 Konrad Lorenz and Wolfgang Wickler
6.3.2.4 Thorwald Lorenzen
Chapter 6.4 Conclusion
Part 7. Summary, Synthesis and Conclusion
BIBLIOGRAPHY
That’s it. Thank you for dropping by!
Other [important] information, which is also in the PDF copy of the contents, above:
The copyright page shows the following:
This work was accepted as a dissertation in 2017 by the Fakultät für Philosophie, Kunst–, Geschichts– und Gesellschaftswissenschaften, Universität Regensburg, Bayern, Deutschland (under the Institut für Evangelische Theologie). [Institute of Protestant Theology — Faculty of Philosophy, Art–, History– and Social Sciences (Humanities) of the University of Regensburg, Bavaria, Germany.] (D 355) ISBN 978-621-95560-2-6 Philippine Copyright © 2017 by Mona Lisa P. Siacor. All rights reserved. [Scripture quotations are generally from:] New Revised Standard Version Bible, copyright © 1989, National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved. Published and printed 2017 by the Central Philippine University Press, Iloilo City, Philippines.
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