Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament

Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-16273-0
Verlag: Koninklijke Brill NV

Buch, Englisch, Band 16, 266 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 397 g

Reihe: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

The texts of the New Testament have long been understood to require interpretation in the light of the Hebrew Bible, Qumran and other postbiblical literary and documentary sources. Conversely, they provide an invaluable source for the reconstruction of halakhah in the late Second Commonwealth period. These essays illustrate the complexity of the inter-relationships, and the methodological issues which arise: the “legal” content of the texts cannot be separated from the intertextualities of Jewish theology. The topics cover letter and spirit, prophecy and law, forgiveness, the accounts of Jesus’ “trial(s)”, the evidence required for legal and theological claims, shepherding images, disinheritance (the prodigal son), marriage and divorce.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jackson, Bernard S.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations
Preface
1. Historical Observations on the Relationship between Letter and Spirit
2. The Prophet and the Law in Early Judaism and the New Testament
3. The Trials of Jesus and Jeremiah
4. Testes Singulares in Early Jewish Law and the New Testament
5. Susanna and the Singular History of Singular Witnesses
6. The Jewish Background to the Prodigal Son: An Unresolved Problem
7. Risk-Taking Shepherds
8. “Holier than Thou”? Marriage and Divorce in the Scrolls, the New Testament and Early Rabbinic Sources
Bibliography
Index of Sources
Index of Authors
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bernard S. Jackson (D.Phil. 1969 Oxford; D.H.L. (h.c.) 1998 Hebrew Union College), is Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, University of Manchester. A Jewish law specialist, his most recent book is Wisdom-Laws (OUP, 2006), a study of Exod. 21-22.