Early Christian Interpretation of the Scriptures of Israel: Investigations and Proposals
in Library of New Testament Studies
Pages
476
Publisher
T&T Clark
Published
9/1/1997
ISBN-13
9780567257512
This book explores the ways in which early Christian writers and communities, from late antiquity through the New Testament period, interpreted the scriptures of Israel, as they sought to understand Jesus and the Gospel in relation to God's revelation and past acts in history. These essays represent work on the growing edge of studies of the relationship of the Old Testament to the New Testament. The contents, authored by both veteran and younger scholars, treat methods and canons, Jesus and the Gospels, and Acts and the Epistles.
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- List of Contributors
- Part 1: Methods and Canons
- The social environment of 'free' biblical quotations in the New Testament - Christopher D. Stanley
- Scripture is as scripturalists do: scripture as a human activity in the Qumran scrolls - Jeffrey S. Rogers
- The rhetoric of quotations: an essay on method - Christopher D. Stanley
- To invert or not to invert: the Pharisaic canon in the Gospels - Wolfgang Roth
- The use of the Old Testament in the New Testament: a brief comment on method and terminology - Stanley E. Porter
- Part 2: The Gospels
- The use of scripture in two narratives of early Jewish Christianity (Matthew 4.1-11; Mark 9.2-8) - William Richard Stegner
- The woman with a blood-flow (Mark 5.24-34) revisited: menstrual laws and Jewish culture in Christian feminist hermeneutics - Charlotte Fonrobert
- The one who comes unbinding the blessing of Judah: Mark 11.1-10 as a Midrash on Genesis 49.11, Zechariah 9.9, and Psalm 118.25-26 - Deborah Krause
- Psalm 118 in Luke-Acts: tracing a narrative thread - J. Ross Wagner
- Intertextual permutations of the Genesis Word in the Johannine prologues - William S. Kurz, SJThreats answered by enthronement: death/resurrection and the divine warrior myth in John 5.17-29, Psalm 2 and Daniel 7 - Mary R. Huie-Jolly
- Hungers assuaged by the bread from heaven: 'eating Jesus' as Isaian call to belief: the confluence of Isaiah 55 and Psalm 78 (77) in John 6.22-71 - Diana M. Swancutt
- Ezekiel's shepherd and John's Jesus: a case study in the appropriation of biblical texts - Mary Katharine Deeley
- Part 3: Acts, Epistles and Revelation
- Vindicating the rejected one: Stephen's speech as a critique of the Jewish leaders - H. Alan Brehm
- Paul and his story: Exodus and tradition in Galatians - Sylvia C. Keesmaat
- An interpretation of Isaiah 22.15-25 and its function in the New Testament - John T. Willis
- The interpretation of Psalm 95 in Hebrews 3.1-4.13 - Peter Enns
- The different functions of a similar Melchizedek tradition in 2 Enoch and the Epistle to the Hebrews - Charles A. Gieschen
- Heroes and history in Hebrews 11 - Pamela Eisenbaum
- The provenance of the Caliphate church: James 2.17-26 and Galatians 3 reconsidered - Vasiliki Limberis
- Solecisms in the Apocalypse as signals for the presence of Old Testament allusions: a selective analysis of Revelation 1-22 - G.K. Beale
- List of References
- List of Authors
Inner Books
This physical volume has several internal sections, each of which has been reviewed independently
- The social environment of 'free' biblical quotations in the New Testament by Christopher D. Stanley
- Scripture is as scripturalists do: scripture as a human activity in the Qumran scrolls by Jeffrey S. Rogers
- The rhetoric of quotations: an essay on method by Christopher D. Stanley
- To invert or not to invert: the Pharisaic canon in the Gospels by Wolfgang Roth
- The use of the Old Testament in the New Testament: a brief comment on method and terminology by Stanley E. Porter
- The use of scripture in two narratives of early Jewish Christianity (Matthew 4.1-11; Mark 9.2-8) by William Richard Stegner
- The woman with a blood-flow (Mark 5.24-34) revisited: menstrual laws and Jewish culture in Christian feminist hermeneutics by Charlotte Fonrobert
- The one who comes unbinding the blessing of Judah: Mark 11.1-10 as a Midrash on Genesis 49.11, Zechariah 9.9, and Psalm 118.25-26 by Deborah Krause
- Psalm 118 in Luke-Acts: tracing a narrative thread by J. Ross Wagner
- Intertextual permutations of the Genesis Word in the Johannine prologues - William S. Kurz, SJThreats answered by enthronement: death/resurrection and the divine warrior myth in John 5.17-29, Psalm 2 and Daniel 7 by Mary R. Huie-Jolly
- Hungers assuaged by the bread from heaven: 'eating Jesus' as Isaian call to belief: the confluence of Isaiah 55 and Psalm 78 (77) in John 6.22-71 by Diana M. Swancutt
- Ezekiel's shepherd and John's Jesus: a case study in the appropriation of biblical texts by Mary Katharine Deeley
- Vindicating the rejected one: Stephen's speech as a critique of the Jewish leaders by H. Alan Brehm
- Paul and his story: Exodus and tradition in Galatians by Sylvia C. Keesmaat
- An interpretation of Isaiah 22.15-25 and its function in the New Testament by John T. Willis
- The interpretation of Psalm 95 in Hebrews 3.1-4.13 by Peter Enns
- The different functions of a similar Melchizedek tradition in 2 Enoch and the Epistle to the Hebrews by Charles A. Gieschen
- Heroes and history in Hebrews 11 by Pamela Eisenbaum
- The provenance of the Caliphate church: James 2.17-26 and Galatians 3 reconsidered by Vasiliki Limberis
- Solecisms in the Apocalypse as signals for the presence of Old Testament allusions: a selective analysis of Revelation 1-22 by G. K. Beale