The Jewish world around the New Testament /

Bauckham, Richard, 1946-

The Jewish world around the New Testament / Richard Bauckham. - Grand Rapids, MI : Baker Academic, 2010. - vi, 548p ; pbk ; 23cm.

Originally published in 2008 in Tubingen, Germany, by Mohr Siebeck GmbH & Co. KG Tubingen as "The Jewish World around the New Testament : Collected Essays I, Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungenzum Neuen Testament 233.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction -- The martyrdom of Enoch and Elijah: Jewish or Christian -- Enoch and Elijah in the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah -- The rise of Apocalyptic -- The delay of the Parousia -- A note on a problem in the Greek version of 1 Enoch 1:9 -- The Son of Man: "A Man in my position" or "Someone"? -- The Apocalypses in the New Pseudepigrapha -- Pseudo-apostolic letters -- Kainam the son of Arpachshad in Luke's genealogy -- The list of the tribes in Revelation 7 -- The parting of the ways: what happened and why -- The Messianic interpretation of Isaiah 10:34 -- The relevance of extra canonical Jewish texts to New Testament study -- Josephus' account of the temple in Contra Apionem 2.102-109 -- Life death and afterlife in Second Temple Judaism -- What if Paul had travelled East rather than West? -- Covenant, law and salvation in the Jewish Apocalypses -- The restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts -- Paul and other Jews with Latin names in the New Testament -- The Horarium of Adam and the Chronology of the Passion -- The Spirit of God in us loathes envy (James 4:5) -- Tobit as a parable for the exiles of Northern Israel -- The continuing quest for the provenance of the Old Testament.

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Bible--criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible. --N.T.--relation to the Old Testament


Judaism Christianity. --relations
Judaism history --to 70 A.D.


Palestine--history--2nd temple period.

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