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Book SynopsisTwenty-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 ContentsThe Contributors Preface Introduction Part 1: Methodology A Phenomenological Approach to Values and Valuing: A Research Strategy, M. Kathryn Armistead Justification: An Essay on Approach and Method in Biblical Studies, Baruch A. Levine Critical Issues in the Formation of the Hebrew Bible, Lee Martin McDonald Part 2: Earliest Christianity in Its Judaic Setting Gamaliel and Paul, Richard Bauckham 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 Reading Paul in Relation to Judaism: Comparison or Contrast?, William S. Campbell The Targums and the Apostle Paul, Delio DelRio Few and Far Between: The Life of a Creed, Scot McKnight Patterns of Prophecy, Jacob Neusner What James Was, His More Famous Brother Was Also, John Painter Part 3: Gospel Studies The Compassionate Father of Two Difficult Sons (Luke 15:11-32) and Judaic Interpretation of the Ark and 2 Samuel 6, Roger David Aus Parables of Jesus: Told and Enacted, Frederick Houk Borsch Passover and the Date of the Crucifixion, Philip R. Davies An Aramaic Parable in a Greek Gospel: The Quest for the Original Meaning of the Vineyard Parable, Craig A. Evans The Gospel of Mark in Syriac Christianity, Daniel M. Gurtner The Legacy of B.F. Westcott and Oral Gospel Tradition, Stanley E. Porter Misunderstood New Testament Texts: Mark 2:23 and Galatians 2:1, John Townsend Part 4: History and Meaning in the Later Church Origen: Exegesis, Contemplative Prayer, and the Limits of Language, Robert M. Berchman Exploring the Origins of the descensus ad inferos, J.H. Charlesworth The Chalcedonian Formula and Twentieth Century Ecumenism, Paul B. Clayton, Jr. The Gospel of Participation, Klyne Snodgrass One Supper, Many Suppers: The Eucharist in the Earliest Christian Communities, Armand Puig Tarrech Major Publications of Bruce Chilton Index of Biblical and Post-Biblical References Index of Topics
