Earliest Christianity within the boundaries of Judaism : : essays in honor of Bruce Chilton / / edited by Alan J. Avery-Peck, Craig A. Evans, Jacob Neusner.

• Superior document: Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Volume 49
• TeilnehmendeR: Avery-Peck, Alan J. 1953-; Evans, Craig A.,; Neusner, Jacob,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, Massachusetts : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill reference library of Judaism ; Volume 49.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (501 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

Twenty-two essays, written by top scholars in the fields of early Christianity and Judaism, focus on methodological issues, earliest Christianity in its Judaic setting, Gospel studies, and history and meaning in later Christianity. These essays honor Bruce Chilton, recognizing his seminal contribution to the study of earliest Christianity in its Judaic setting. Chilton’s scholarship has established innovative approaches to reconstructing the life of Jesus, a Jew whose religious ideology developed and therefore must be understood within the Judaism of the first centuries. Following upon Chilton’s approaches and insights, the essays collected here illustrate the centrality of the literatures of early Judaism to the critical exegesis of the New Testament and other writings of early Christianity.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Introduction / Alan J. Avery-Peck , Craig A. Evans and Jacob Neusner -- 1 A Phenomenological Approach to Values and Valuing: A Research Strategy / M. Kathryn Armistead -- 2 Justification: An Essay on Approach and Method in Biblical Studies / Baruch A. Levine -- 3 Critical Issues in the Formation of the Hebrew Bible / Lee Martin McDonald -- 4 Gamaliel and Paul / Richard Bauckham -- 5 What Shall We Remember, the Deeds or the Faith of Our Ancestors? A Comparison of 1 Maccabees 2 and Hebrews 11 / Christian M.M. Brady -- 6 Reading Paul in Relation to Judaism: Comparison or Contrast? / William S. Campbell -- 7 The Targums and the Apostle Paul / Delio DelRio -- 8 Few and Far Between: The Life of a Creed / Scot McKnight -- 9 Patterns of Prophecy / Jacob Neusner -- 10 What James Was, His More Famous Brother Was Also / John Painter -- 11 The Compassionate Father of Two Difficult Sons (Luke 15:11–32) and Judaic Interpretation of the Ark and 2 Samuel 6 / Roger David Aus -- 12 Parables of Jesus: Told and Enacted / Frederick Houk Borsch -- 13 Passover and the Date of the Crucifixion / Philip R. Davies -- 14 An Aramaic Parable in a Greek Gospel: The Quest for the Original Meaning of the Vineyard Parable / Craig A. Evans -- 15 The Gospel of Mark in Syriac Christianity / Daniel M. Gurtner -- 16 The Legacy of B.F. Westcott and Oral Gospel Tradition / Stanley E. Porter -- 17 Misunderstood New Testament Texts: Mark 2:23 and Galatians 2:1 / John Townsend -- 18 Origen: Exegesis, Contemplative Prayer, and the Limits of Language / Robert M. Berchman -- 19 Exploring the Origins of the descensus ad inferos / J.H. Charlesworth -- 20 The Chalcedonian Formula and Twentieth Century Ecumenism / Paul B. Clayton Jr. -- 21 The Gospel of Participation / Klyne Snodgrass -- 22 One Supper, Many Suppers: The Eucharist in the Earliest Christian Communities / Armand Puig i Tàrrech -- Major Publications of Bruce Chilton -- Index of Biblical and Post-Biblical References -- Index of Names and Subjects.