From Judaism to Christianity : tradition and transition : a festschrift for Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., on the occasion of his sixty-fifth birthday / / edited by Patricia Walters.

• Superior document: Supplements to Novum Testamentum, v. 136
• TeilnehmendeR: Walters, Patricia, 1947-; Tobin, Thomas H., 1945-
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Novum Testamentum ; v. 136.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (355 pages) :; portraits, plates
• Notes: Includes a biographical note on Thomas H. Tobin and a bibliography of his works (p. [xvii]-xxxii).

As a far reaching tribute to the distinguished career of Thomas H. Tobin, S.J., a team of outstanding biblical scholars has joined to offer essays on the religious milieu of the ancient Mediterranean region. Challenged by Hellenistic and Greco-Roman cultural and political domination, the religious struggles of Jewish and, later, Christian communities sought to maintain tradition as well as mitigate transition. Jewish responses to a Hellenistic world are revealed anew in the Dead Sea Scrolls and the works of Artapanus and Philo. Also, Christian views on the transitory world of the early centuries of the Common Era are brought to light in the New Testament literature, apocryphal texts, and Patristic writings. Professors and students alike will benefit from the depth and breadth of this fresh scholarship.

Table of Contents

Interpretive disagreements and the ontology of a text : scandal or possibility? / Robert A. Di Vito -- Qara' and 'ana in the Hebrew scriptures / Pauline A. Viviano -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and Jewish-Christian dialogue / Eileen Schuller -- Artapanus revisited / John J. Collins -- Exegetical building blocks in Philo's interpretation of the patriarchs / Ellen Birnbaum -- Exegetical traditions in Alexandria : Philo's reworking of the letter of Aristeas 145-149 as a case study / Hans Svebakken -- The Second Temple and the arts of resistance / Adela Yarbro Collins -- Mamona iniquitatis : can we make sense of the parable of the dishonest steward? / Edmondo Lupieri -- Galatians 3:28 and the problem of equality in the church and society / David E. Aune -- "Welcome him as you would welcome me" (Philemon 17) : does Paul call for virtue or the actualization of a vision? / Wendy Cotter -- The god transformed : Greco-Roman literary antecedents to the Incarnation / Lawrence DiPaolo, Jr -- The Johannine literature and Gosticism : new light on their relationship / Urban C. von Wahlde -- The Acts of John and the fourth gospel / Harold W. Attridge -- Christ, the church, and the shape of scripture : what we can learn from patristic exegesis / Brian E. Daley.