Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment (2006 Barclay/Gathercole), edited volume

Divine and Human Agency in Paul and His Cultural Environment (2006) is a volume edited by John M.G. Barclay and Simon J. Gathercole.

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Published in London [England]: T&T Clark, 2006

Introduction / John M.G. Barclay
Inner-Jewish debate on the tension between divine and human agency in second temple Judaism / Gabriele Boccaccini
Predestination and free will in the theology of the Dead Sea Scrolls / Phillip S. Alexander
Tension between God's command and Israel's obedience as reflected in the early rabbinic literature / Friedrich Avemarie
Paul's anthropological "pessimism" in its Jewish context / Stephen Westerholm
Constructing an antithesis: Pauline and other Jewish perspectives on divine and human agency / Francis Watson
Self-sufficiency and power: divine and human agency in Epictetus and Paul / Troels Engberg-Pedersen
"By the grace of God I am what I am": grace and agency in Philo and Paul / John M.G. Barclay
Sin in God's economy: agencies in Romans 1 and 7 / Simon Gathercole
Epilogue: an essay in Pauline meta-ethics / J. Louis Martyn