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.

Editions and translations

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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