Torah in the New Testament: Papers Delivered at the Manchester-Lausanne Seminar of June 2008

Torah in the New Testament is a collection of papers delivered at the Manchester-Lausanne Seminar of June 2008. This also involved contributions from the Universities of Sheffield, Geneva and the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The purpose of the seminar was to offer some significant studies on the general topic of the Torah in the New Testament with particular reference to methodological issues, to the Jesus traditions in the Gospels, and to Paul and the Law.

Two previous collections of papers from these scholarly co-operations have been published in the Library of New Testament Studies: C.M. Tuckett (ed.), Luke's Literary Achievement: Collected Essays (LNTS 116, 1995) and T. Klutz (ed.), Magic in the Biblical World: From the Road of Aaron to the Ring of Solomon (LNTS 245, 2003). This collection will be of great interest to New Testament scholars who are actively engaged in research on the relationship between early Christianity and the Jewish Torah.

It contains cutting-edge comments on issues of methodology in such debates and on both Jesus and the Law and Paul and the Law. Since the landmark works of Sanders and others in the 1980s these topics have been of considerable interest to scholars who are trying to represent Jesus, Paul and early Christianity in a suitable Jewish context.

• Table of contents
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• Part I - Gospels
  • Mark 7.1-23: Revisiting the Question of 'All Foods Clean' - James Crossley
  • The Salvific Significance of the Torah in Mark 10.17-22 and 12.28-34 - Arseny Ermakov
  • The Source Q and the Torah - Andreas Dettwiler
  • Jesus, Son of Joseph and Son of David, in the Gospels - Thomas Römer and Jan Rückl
  • The Rhetorical Function of John's Portrayal of the Jewish Law - Sean Winter
• Part II - Acts
  • Paul and the Torah in the Acts of the Apostles - Daniel Marguerat
  • Acts 15 or the 'Return of the Repressed'? The Church and the Law in Acts - Simon Butticaz
  • Some Observations on the Apostolic Decree in Acts 15.20, 29 (and 21.25) - Emmanuelle Steffeck
• Part III - Letters
  • Law and Theology in Galatians - Peter Oakes
  • Helping Paul's Argument Work? The Curse of Galatians 3.10-14 - Barry Matlock
  • Torah, Rewritten Torah and the Letter of Jude - George Brooke
• Part IV - Other Texts
  • The End of the Law: The Messianic Torah in the Pseudepigrapha - Michael Tait
  • Educating Gentiles: Explanations of Torah in the New Testament, Philo and Josephus - Roger Tomes
  • Legislation as Social Engineering in the New Testament World - Gerald Downing
  • Filled with the Glory of God: The Appropriation of Tabernacle Imagery in the New Testament and Gregory of Nyssa - Ann Conway-Jones
• Index of References
• Index of Authors