Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism social and literary contexts for the New Testament / [electronic resource] :
edited by Stanley E. Porter, Andrew W. Pitts.
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2013.
- 1 online resource (vii, 619 p.)
- Texts and editions for New Testament study, 1574-7085 ; v. 10 Early Christianity in its hellenistic context ; v. 2 .
- Texts and editions for New Testament study ; v. 10. .
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
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.
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. 30-600. RELIGION / Biblical Criticism & Interpretation / New Testament