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 The New Testament and Hellenistic Judaism Edited by Peder Borgen and Soren Giversen 
 Description From The Publisher: A substantial portion of the New Testament was either written in the Jewish Diaspora or addressed to members of the Diaspora. This means that Hellenistic Judaism outside of Palestine was to a great extent the matrix from which New Testament thought developed, so that the New Testament teachings and presupositions about the relationship of the followers of Jesus to the "Old Covenant" must be understood in terms of Hellenistic Jewish understandings of that covenant. These papers, which were presented at a conference held at the University of Aarhus, Denmark, in 1992, investigate different aspects of the relationship of formative Christianity to its Hellenistic Jewish matrix. Contributors are European scholars, such as the volume editors and Marinus de Jonge, and Americans, including James Charlesworth and Adela Yarbro Collins. Topics include: ownership of the covenant according to the Epistle of Barnabas; Alexandrian Jewish religious life as seen in texts prior to Philo; the universality of Torah in Helenistic Judaism as a preparation for Gentile Christianity; the Jewishness of the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs and of certain magical texts; the Jewish background of Mark's empty tomb account, Mark's theios aner christology, and the New Testament love command; comparisons of Philonic and Pauline biblical exegesis; the role of Hellenistic philosophy in the Corinthian conflict; the influence of passion traditions on Pauline hardship catalogs; and the semiotics of the Adam-Christ typology in Romans. All articles are in English, including one newly translated from German for this edition.  Reader's Index Send us your favorite quotes or passages from this book. Table of Contents Peder Borgen Introduction Søren Giversen The Covenant - theirs or ours? Lars Hartman "Guiding the Knowing Vessel of your Heart" Nikolaus Walter Hellenistic Jews of the Diaspora at the Cradle of Primitive Christianity Marinus de Jonge The so-called Pseudepigrapha of the Old Testament and Early Christianity James H. Charlesworth The Son of David: Solomon and Jesus Adela Yarbro Collins Apotheosis and Resurrection Aage Pilgarrd The Hellenistic Theios Aner - A Model for Early Christian Christology? Johannes Nissen The Distinctive Character of the New Testament Love Command in Relation to Hellenistic Judaism Peder Borgen Some Hebrew and Pagan Features in Philo's and Paul's Interpretation of Hagar and Ishmael Karl Gustav Sandelin Does paul Argue Against Sacramentalism and Over-Confidence in I Cor 10:1-14? Per Jarle Bekken Paul's Use of Deut 30:12-14 in Jewish Context Niels Hyldahl Paul and Hellenistc Judaism in Corinth Niels Hyldahl The Catalogues of Hardships in teh Pauline Correspondence: Background and Function Ole Davidsen The Structural Typology of Adam and Christ. Some Modal-Semiotic Comments on the Basic Narrative of the Letter to the Romans Abbreviations Index of Names Index Locorum Customer Reviews Write your own online review. Look for Similar Books by Subject  Biblical Studies
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