The Concept of the Covenant in the Second Temple Period (2003 Porter/De Roo), edited volume
<bibexternal title="The Concept of the Covenant" author="porter"/> The Concept of the Covenant in the Second Telple Period (2003) is a volume edited by Stanley E. Porter and Jacqueline C.R. De Roo.
Abstract
"During the reign of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire, the Jews returned to Jerusalem to rebuild the temple. This Second Temple period is characterised by a changing mode of thinking. This volume traces the development of the concept of the covenant during this important era, by discussing relevant texts among the Apocrypha, such as Wisdom of Solomon; the Pseudepigrapha, especially the Dead Sea Scrolls and Jubilees; and the New Testament, such as the Pauline Letters. The authors deal with interesting concepts related to the idea of the covenant, such as law, wisdom, election, grace, the kingdom of God and even the role of food."--Publisher description.
Editions and translations
Published in Leiden: Brill, 2003 (Supplements to the Journal for the Study of Judaism, 71).
Table of contents
- Introduction to the concept of the covenant / Stanley E. Porter and Jacqueline C.R. De Roo
- People of the new covenant / David Noel Freedman and David Miano
- The covenant in legal context / George W. Buchanan
- Covenant in the Qumran literature / Craig A. Evans
- The covenant of the Qumran sectarians / Martin G. Abegg
- The concept of a new covenant in the Teacher hymns from Qumran (1QHa x-xvii) / Michael O. Wise
- The role of food as related to covenant in Qumran literature / Stephen A. Reed
- The covenant of Noah in Jubilees 6.1-38 / Jacques van Ruiten
- God's covenant with the forefathers / Jacqueline C.R. de Roo
- Covenental nomism in the Psalms targum / Edward M. Cook
- Covenant and cosmos in Wisdom of Solomon 10-19 / Randall D. Chesnutt
- Did all Jews think alike?: "Covenant" in Philo and Josephus in the context of Second temple Judaic religion / Lester L. Grabbe
- The concept of covenant in Paul / Stanley E. Porter
- Did Paul have a covenant theology?: Reflections on Romans 9.4 and 11.27 / James D.G. Dunn