New Testament backgrounds : a Sheffield reader - Evans, Craig A.; Porter, Stanley E. 1956- (Sheffield, UK : Sheffield Academic, 1997)
Contents : Hostility and wealth in Philo of Alexandria / T. Ewald Schmidt -- The paradox of Philo's views on wealth / David Mealand -- A man clothed in linen: Daniel 10:5-9 and Jewish angelology / Christopher Rowland -- The Lamb of God in the "Testaments of the twelve patriarchs" / J.C. O'Neill -- The apocalypses in the New Pseudepigrapha / Richard Bauckham -- David Daube on the Eucharist and the Passover Seder / Deborah Bleicher Carmichael -- The Sabbath in the Synoptic gospels / Herold Weiss -- Popular prophetic movements at the time of Jesus: their principal features and social origins / Richard A. Horsley -- Streams of tradition emerging from Isaiah 40:1-5 and their adaptation in the New Testament / Klyne R. Snodgrass -- Jesus as mediator / D.R. de Lacey -- John 1:16: Grace and the law in Johanine prologue / Ruth B. Edwards -- John4:16-53 / A.H. Mead -- Hellenistic parallels to the Acts of the Apostles (2:1-47) / Pieter W. van der Horst -- Hellenistic parallels to the Acts (Chapter 3 and 4) / Pieter W. van der Horst -- Moses typology and the sectarian nature of early Christian anti-Judaism: a study of Acts 7 / T.L. Donaldson -- The God-fearers: some neglected features / J. Andrew Overman -- Onesimus Fugitivus: a defense of the runaway slave hypothesis in Philemon / The pragmatics of politeness and Pauline epistolography: a case study of the letter to Philemon / Andrew Wilson -- Confluence in early Christian and Gnostic literature: the Descensus Christi ad inferos (Acts of Pilate 17-27).
Articles originally published in Journal for the study of the New Testament.
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Keywords: Bible. -- criticism, interpretation, etc; Journal for the study of the New Testament. -- excerpts