Jewish and Christian Texts in Contexts and Related Studies

Jewish and Christian Texts in Context and Related Studies (2007-) is a book series, published in New York, NY by T&T Clark, currently directed by James H. Charlesworth.

History

"This series focuses on early Jewish and Christian texts and their formative contexts; it also includes sourcebooks that help clarify the ancient world. Five aspects distinguish this series. First, the series reflects the need to situate, and to seek to understand, these ancient texts within their originating social and historical contexts. Second, the series assumes that it is now often difficult to distinguish between Jewish and Christian documents, since all early Christians were Jews. Jesus and his earliest followers were devout Jews who shared many ideas with the well-known Jewish groups, especially the Pharisees, the Essenes, and the various apocalyptic groups. Third, the series recognizes that there were (and still are) many ways of understanding authoritative literature or scripture. Therefore, we must not impose a static notion of canon on the early period of our culture and in turn denigrate some texts with labels such as non-canonical since such terms are anachronistic designations that were only later imposed on the early documents. Fourth, the series emphasizes the need to include all relevant sources and documents, including non-literary data, and that all important methodologies - from archaeology and sociology to rhetoric and theology - should be employed to clarify the origin and meaning of the documents. Fifth, scientific research is at the foundation of these publications which are directed to scholars and those interested in Jewish and Christian origins."--Publisher description.

Books in the series

1-9

• 1. The Psalms of Solomon: A Critical Edition of the Greek Text (2007 Wright), book

• 2. Jesus, an Emerging Jewish Mosaic: Jewish Perspectives, Post-Holocaust (2008 Moore), book

• 3. The Historical Jesus?: Necessity and Limits of an Inquiry (2008 Nodet / Crowley), book (English ed.)

• 4. The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins (2008 Oegema, Charlesworth), edited volume

• 5. Second Baruch: A Critical Edition of the Syriac Text (2009 Gurtner), book

• 6. A Commentary on the Gospel of Thomas: From Interpretations to the Interpreted (2009 Pokorný), book

• 7. Jewish and Christian Scriptures: The Function of "Canonical" and "Non-Canonical" Religious Texts (2010 Charlesworth, McDonald), book

• 8. Qumran and the Origins of Johannine Language and Symbolism (2010 Mburu), book

• 9. The Son of Man in the Parables of Enoch and in Matthew (2011 Walck), book

10-19

• 10. The Messiah: A Comparative Study of the Enochic Son of Man and the Pauline Kyrios (2011 Waddell), book

• 16. Sacred Texts and Paradigmatic Revolutions: The Hermeneutical Worlds of the Qumran Sectarian Manuscripts and the Letter to the Romans (2015 Stark), book

• 17. The Protevangelium of James: 1: Greek Text, English Translation, Critical Introduction (2019 Zervos), book <forthcoming>

20-29

• 20. Sacra Scriptura: How "Non-Canonical" Texts Functioned in Early Judaism and Early Christianity (2015 Charlesworth, McDonald), edited volume

• 21. The Resurrection of Jesus in the Gospel of Peter (2016 Johnston), book

• 22. New Vistas on Early Judaism and Christianity: From Enoch to Montreal and Back (2016 DiTommaso, Oegema), edited volume

• 23. A History of the Hasmonean State: Josephus and Beyond (2016 Atkinson), book

• 24. The Early Enoch Tradition and the Synoptic Gospels (2019 Stuckenbruck, et al.), edited volume <forthcoming>

• 25. Saint Thomas the Apostle: New Testament, Apocrypha, and Historical Traditions (2018 Thomaskutty), book

• 26. Jesus Research: The Gospel of John in Historical Inquiry (2019 Charlesworth), book <forthcoming>

• 27. The Hasmoneans and Their Neighbors: New Historical Reconstructions from the Dead Sea Scrolls and Classical Sources (2018 Atkinson), book

• 28. The Unperceived Continuity of Isaiah (2018 Charlesworth), book <forthcoming>

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30-39

• 30. Afterlife and Resurrection Beliefs in the Apocrypha and Apocalyptic Literature (2019 Sigvartsen), book <forthcoming>

External links

• Jewish and Christian Texts -- Bloomsbury