Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism (2013 Porter, Pitts), edited volume

Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism (2013) is a volume edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts.

Abstract

"In Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through reference to Hellenistic Judaism and its literary forms. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Greco-Roman Jewish culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Hellenistic Jewish texts."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Leiden, Netherlands: Brill, 2013.

Contents

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.

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