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Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism : social and literary contexts for the New Testament / edited by Stanley E. Porter, Andrew W. Pitts.

Contributor(s): Porter, Stanley E, 1956- | Pitts, Andrew W
Material type: TextTextSeries: Texts and editions for New Testament study: v. 10.; Texts and editions for New Testament study: v. 2.Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013Description: vii, 619 pages ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9789004234765 (alk. paper); 9004234764 (alk. paper)Subject(s): Bible. New Testament -- Socio-rhetorical criticism | Christianity -- Origin | Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D | Christianity and other religions -- Judaism | Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity | Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Hellenistic Judaism and New Testament interpretation: an introductory essay / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- Hellenistic Jewish social contexts for Christian origins. Hellenism and Biblical canons: is there a connection? / Lee Martin McDonald -- Glorifying the present through the past: Herod the Great and his Jewish royal predecessors / Adam Kolman Marshak -- Beyond covenant nomism: revisiting Palestinian Judaism in light of pseudo-Philo's Biblical antiquities / Preston M. Sprinkle -- Resurrection and immortality in Hellenistic Judaism: navigating the conceptual boundaries / C.D. Elledge -- The spirit in second temple Jewish monotheism and the origins of early Christology / Andrew W. Pitts and Seth Pollinger -- The ethnic context of Paul's letters / Christopher D. Stanley -- “Is Saul of Tarsus also among the prophets?” Paul's calling as prophetic divine commissioning / Tony Costa -- Monotheism and philosophy: notes on the concept of God in Philo and Paul (Romans 1:18-21) / Peter Frick -- Paul beyond the Judaism/Hellenism divide? The case of Pauline anthropology in Romans 7 and 2 Corinthians 4-5 / Emma Wasserman --
Hellenistic Jewish literary and religious contexts for Christian origins Was John the Baptist a member of the Qumran community? Once more / Stanley E. Porter -- The temple attitudes of John and Qumran in the light of Hellenistic Judaism / Wally V. Cirafesi -- Rhetoric and the art of persuasion in the Wisdom of Solomon / Leo G. Perdue -- Dialectics: philosophical and Talmudic / Jacob Neusner -- Ancient “science fiction:” journeys into space and visions of the world in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman literature of antiquity / Catherine Hezser -- Luke, Josephus, and self-definition: the genre of Luke-Acts and its relationship to apologetic historiography and collected biography / Sean A. Adams -- Rivers, springs, and wells of living water: metaphorical transformation in the Johannine corpus / Beth M. Stovell -- Martyr theology in Hellenistic Judaism and Paul's conception of Jesus' death in Romans 3:21-26 / Jarvis J. Williams -- Torah instruction, discussion, and prophecy in first-century synagogues / Carl Mosser -- On the trail of Trypho: two fragmentary Jewish-Christian dialogues from the ancient church / William Varner.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Hellenistic Judaism and New Testament interpretation: an introductory essay / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- Hellenistic Jewish social contexts for Christian origins. Hellenism and Biblical canons: is there a connection? / Lee Martin McDonald -- Glorifying the present through the past: Herod the Great and his Jewish royal predecessors / Adam Kolman Marshak -- Beyond covenant nomism: revisiting Palestinian Judaism in light of pseudo-Philo's Biblical antiquities / Preston M. Sprinkle -- Resurrection and immortality in Hellenistic Judaism: navigating the conceptual boundaries / C.D. Elledge -- The spirit in second temple Jewish monotheism and the origins of early Christology / Andrew W. Pitts and Seth Pollinger -- The ethnic context of Paul's letters / Christopher D. Stanley -- “Is Saul of Tarsus also among the prophets?” Paul's calling as prophetic divine commissioning / Tony Costa -- Monotheism and philosophy: notes on the concept of God in Philo and Paul (Romans 1:18-21) / Peter Frick -- Paul beyond the Judaism/Hellenism divide? The case of Pauline anthropology in Romans 7 and 2 Corinthians 4-5 / Emma Wasserman --

Hellenistic Jewish literary and religious contexts for Christian origins Was John the Baptist a member of the Qumran community? Once more / Stanley E. Porter -- The temple attitudes of John and Qumran in the light of Hellenistic Judaism / Wally V. Cirafesi -- Rhetoric and the art of persuasion in the Wisdom of Solomon / Leo G. Perdue -- Dialectics: philosophical and Talmudic / Jacob Neusner -- Ancient “science fiction:” journeys into space and visions of the world in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman literature of antiquity / Catherine Hezser -- Luke, Josephus, and self-definition: the genre of Luke-Acts and its relationship to apologetic historiography and collected biography / Sean A. Adams -- Rivers, springs, and wells of living water: metaphorical transformation in the Johannine corpus / Beth M. Stovell -- Martyr theology in Hellenistic Judaism and Paul's conception of Jesus' death in Romans 3:21-26 / Jarvis J. Williams -- Torah instruction, discussion, and prophecy in first-century synagogues / Carl Mosser -- On the trail of Trypho: two fragmentary Jewish-Christian dialogues from the ancient church / William Varner.

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