Christian origins and Hellenistic Judaism : : social and literary contexts for the New Testament / / edited by Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts.

• Superior document: Texts and editions for New Testament study ; 10
• TeilnehmendeR: Porter, Stanley E., 1956-; Pitts, Andrew W.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden : : Brill ;, Biggleswade : : Extenza Turpin [distributor],, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 10.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (631 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism , Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through reference to Hellenistic Judaism and its literary forms. Each essay moves forward the current understanding of how primitive Christianity situated itself in relation to evolving Greco-Roman Jewish culture. Some essays focus on configuring the social context for the origins of the Jesus movement and beyond, while others assess the literary relation between early Christian and Hellenistic Jewish texts.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W Pitts -- Hellenistic Judaism and New Testament Interpretation: An Introductory Essay / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts -- Hellenism and the 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 2Corinthians 4–5 / Emma Wasserman -- 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 -- Index of Modern Authors / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W Pitts -- Index of Ancient Sources / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W Pitts.