Full Description
Torah in the New Testament is a collection of papers delivered at the Manchester—Lausanne Seminar of June 2008. This also involved contributions from the Universities of Sheffield, Geneva and the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The purpose of the seminar was to offer some significant studies on the general topic of the Torah in the New Testament with particular reference to methodological issues, to the Jesus traditions in the Gospels, and to Paul and the Law.
Two previous collections of papers from these scholarly co-operations have been published in the Library of New Testament Studies: C.M. Tuckett (ed.), Luke's Literary Achievement: Collected Essays (LNTS 116, 1995) and T. Klutz (ed.), Magic in the Biblical World: From the Road of Aaron to the Ring of Solomon (LNTS 245, 2003). This collection will be of great interest to New Testament scholars who are actively engaged in research on the relationship between early Christianity and the Jewish Torah.
It contains cutting-edge comments on issues of methodology in such debates and on both Jesus and the Law and Paul and the Law. Since the landmark works of Sanders and others in the 1980s these topics have been of considerable interest to scholars who are trying to represent Jesus, Paul and early Christianity in a suitable Jewish context.
Contents
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Notes on Contributors
Introduction
Part I - Gospels
Mark 7.1-23: Revisiting the Question of 'All Foods Clean' James Crossley
The Salvific Significance of the Torah in Mark 10.17-22 and 12.28-34
Arseny Ermakov
The Source Q and the Torah
Andreas Dettwiler
Jesus, Son of Joseph and Son of David, in the Gospels
Thomas Römer and Jan Rückl
The Rhetorical Function of John's Portrayal of the Jewish Law
Sean Winter
Part II - Acts
Paul and the Torah in the Acts of the Apostles
Daniel Marguerat
Acts 15 or the 'Return of the Repressed'? The Church and the Law in Acts
Simon Butticaz
Some Observations on the Apostolic Decree in Acts 15.20, 29 (and 21.25)
Emmanuelle Steffeck
Part III - Letters
Law and Theology in Galatians
Peter Oakes
Helping Paul's Argument Work? The Curse of Galatians 3.10-14
Barry Matlock
Torah, Rewritten Torah and the Letter of Jude
George Brooke
Part IV - Other Texts
The End of the Law: The Messianic Torah in the Pseudepigrapha
Michael Tait
Educating Gentiles: Explanations of Torah in the New Testament, Philo and Josephus
Roger Tomes
Legislation as Social Engineering in the New Testament World
Gerald Downing
Filled with the Glory of God: The Appropriation of Tabernacle Imagery in the New Testament and Gregory of Nyssa
Ann Conway-Jones
Index of References
Index of Authors
