Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins

Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins
Author: Steve Mason
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2009
Genre: Christianity
ISBN: 9781598562545

Throughout Christian history, the works of Josephus have been mined for the light they shed on the world of the New Testament. This collection of essays focuses on threads in the first-century Jewish historian and apologist's works that are of particular interest to those studying Christianity.

Gospel in Paul

Gospel in Paul
Author: L. Ann Jervis
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 422
Release: 1994-10-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567275930

This Festschrift in honour of Richard N. Longenecker (author of Paul, Apostle of Liberty, The Christology of Early Jewish Christianity, The Ministry and Message of Paul, Biblical Exegesis in the Apostolic Period, 'The Acts of the Apostles' in The Expositor's Bible Commentary, New Testament Social Ethics for Today, and Galatians, Word Biblical Commentary) is centered on the theme of 'gospel' in Paul. Notable Pauline scholars discuss 'gospel' from five different perspectives: the historical, the theological, the hermeneutical, the rhetorical and the epistolary; each author discusses one of these five perspectives within one part of Paul's correspondence: (1) Gospel in Romans (2) Gospel in Galatians and (3) Gospel in the Corinthian letters. The volume promotes discussion both on methods of reading Paul's letters and on important historical, theological and hermenutical issues.

Paul and the Torah

Paul and the Torah
Author: Lloyd Gaston
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2006-02-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1597525383

While the task of exegesis after Auschwitz has been to expose the anti-Judaism inherent in the Christian tradition, the founding of the Jewish state has also helped show the continuation of the covenant between God and Israel. For Lloyd Gaston the living reality of Judaism makes possible a better understanding of Paul's prophetic call as Apostle to the Gentiles. In Paul and the Torah, Gaston argues that the terms of Paul's mission must be taken seriously and that it is totally inappropriate to regard his conversion as a transition from one religion to another. Paul's congregations were not made up of Christian Jews: they were exclusively Gentile. He therefore focused on God's promises to Abraham concerning Gentiles which were fulfilled in the faithfulness of Jesus Christ. The inclusion of Gentiles in the elect people of God through their incorporation into Christ thus does not mean a displacement of Israel. Nowhere does Paul speak of the rejection of Israel as God's chosen people, of the Sinai covenant as no longer in effect for Israel, or of the church as the new and true Israel. He also says nothing against the Jewish understanding of Torah as it applies to Israel when he speaks of law in reference to Gentiles. But for those outside the covenant God made with Israel, the law acted in an oppressive and condemning way, and Gentiles needed liberation from it. Paradoxically, Paul finds the gospel of this liberation to be proclaimed already in Torah in the sense of Scripture.

What Are the Gospels?

What Are the Gospels?
Author: Richard A. Burridge
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 312
Release: 1995-05-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780521483636

Compares the work of the evangelists to the development of biography in the Graeco-Roman world

In Quest of the Historical Pharisees

In Quest of the Historical Pharisees
Author: Jacob Neusner
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Total Pages: 524
Release: 2007
Genre: Judaism
ISBN: 1932792724

This work sketches the many portraits of the Pharisees that emerge from ancient sources. Based upon the Gospels, the writings of Paul, Josephus, the Mishnah, the Tosefta, and archeology, the volume profiles the Pharisees and explores the relationship between the Pharisees and the Judaic religious system foreshadowed by the library of Qumran. A great virtue of this study is that no attempt is made to homogenize the distinct pictures or reconstruct a singular account of the Pharisees; instead, by carefully considering the sources, the chapters allow different pictures of the Pharisees to stand side by side.

A Letter from Origen to Africanus

A Letter from Origen to Africanus
Author: Origen Adamantinus
Publisher:
Total Pages: 54
Release: 2018-08-09
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781643730769

Origen to Africanus, a beloved brother in God the Father, through Jesus Christ, His holy Child, greeting. Your letter, from which I learn what you think of the Susanna in the Book of Daniel, which is used in the Churches, although apparently somewhat short, presents in its few words many problems, each of which demands no common treatment, but such as oversteps the character of a letter, and reaches the limits of a discourse. And I, when I consider, as best I can, the measure of my intellect, that I may know myself, am aware that I am wanting in the accuracy necessary to reply to your letter; and that the more, that the few days I have spent in Nicomedia have been far from sufficient to send you an answer to all your demands and queries even after the fashion of the present epistle. Wherefore pardon my little ability, and the little time I had, and read this letter with all indulgence, supplying anything I may omit.

Romans

Romans
Author: Joseph A. Fitzmyer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: Bible
ISBN: 9780300140781

World-class biblical scholar/author Fitzmeyer has written a masterful study onPaul's Epistle to the Romans that will rival the great commentaries on Romans by Martin Luther and Karl Barth. Fitzmeyer is the author of the popular Anchor Bible commentaries on the Gospel according to Luke.

Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome

Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome
Author: Jonathan Edmondson
Publisher: Oxford : Oxford University Press
Total Pages: 417
Release: 2005-05-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0199262128

Flavian Rome has most often been studied without serious attention to its most prolific extant author, Titus Flavius Josephus. Josephus, in turn, has usually been studied for what he is writing about (mainly, events in Judaea) rather than for the context in which he wrote: Flavian Rome. For the first time, this book brings these two phenomena into critical engagement, so that Josephus may illuminate Flavian Rome, and Flavian Rome, Josephus. Who were his likely audiences or patronsin Rome? How did the context in which he wrote affect his writing? What do his narratives say or imply about that context? This book brings together contributions from leading international scholars of Josephus and Flavian-Roman history and literature.

Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum

Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum
Author: Victor Tcherikover
Publisher:
Total Pages: 324
Release: 1957
Genre: Jews
ISBN:

Transcriptions of documents relating to Jews and Judaism in Egypt, with English translations and commentaries.