Eschatology and the Covenant: A Comparison of 4 Ezra and Romans 1-11 (1991 Longenecker), book

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Eschatology and the Covenant: A Comparison of 4 Ezra and Romans 1-11 (1991) is a book by Bruce W. Longenecker.

Abstract

In this development of his doctoral thesis, Longenecker works within the framework of E.P. Sander’s ‘Covenantal Nomism’ (renaming it ‘Ethnocentric Covenantalism’) to explore two texts from Early Judaism, namely Romans 1-11 and 4 Ezra, which do not appear to fit Sander’s paradigm. His investigation unearths several similarities between the two. Both experience a ‘crisis event,’ which challenges their previous Jewish preconceptions (4 Ezra = the destruction of the temple; Paul = the Revelation of Christ), both narrate the breakdown through the perspective that “all are guilty of sin,” both believe that they have gained new insight into God’s law and ways through an eschatological perspective, and both, consequently, reject the traditional ethnic slant of covenantal nomism in favor of a different way. Thus, they deal with a similar problem, but their new understandings of salvation take shape in vastly different ways. For the author of 4 Ezra, sin is countered by human effort and communal identity is exchanged for individual piety. In contrast, for Paul, sin is countered by initiatives that God has already taken and one communal identify is exchanged for another. – Deborah Forger, University of Michigan

Editions

Published in Sheffield [England]: JSOT Press, 1991 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of the New Testament, 57).

Table of contents

  • Preface
  • Abbreviations

Part I: Introduction

  • Chapter 1: Introduction

Part II: 4 Ezra

  • Chapter 2: Introduction to 4 Ezra
  • Chapter 3: Episode I
  • Chapter 4: Episode II
  • Chapter 5: Episode III
  • Chapter 6: Episode IV
  • Chapter 7: Episode V
  • Chapter 8: Episode VI
  • Chapter 9: Episode VII
  • Chapter 10: Conclusions to 4 Ezra

Part III Romans 1 – 11

  • Chapter 11: Introduction to Romans 1 – 11
  • Chapter 12: The Anthropological Condition
  • Chapter 13: The Christological Corrective and the Community of Grace
  • Chapter 14: The Ethnic Component of Christocentric Covenantalism

Part IV. Conclusion

  • Chapter 15: Comparison of 4 Ezra and Romans 1-11
  • Bibliography
  • Index of Biblical References
  • Index of Authors

External links

  • [ Google Books]
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