Law And Ethics In Early Judaism And The New Testament

Author : Stephen Westerholm
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 9783161551338
Total Pages : 460 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Ethics in Early Judaism and the New Testament written by Stephen Westerholm and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2017-10-20 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pious Jews of the Second Temple period sought to conform their lives to Torah, the law God had given Israel. Their different sects disagreed, however, on how to interpret particular laws and even on the question of who had the authority to interpret them. Jesus and his earliest followers, while focusing primarily on what they believed God was doing in their own day, were repeatedly confronted with issues raised by its relation to God's prior revelation in Torah. This volume contains studies by Stephen Westerholm devoted to the meaning and place of Torah in Early Judaism as well as to New Testament understandings, particularly those of the gospels and Pauline literature. Attention is also given to the "New Perspective on Paul," to recent discussions of justification and Paul's relation to Judaism, and to aspects of the transmission of Jesus tradition among his earliest followers.

Author : Wendel & Miller
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0802873197
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity written by Wendel & Miller and published by Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing. This book was released on 2016 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the relationship between the Mosaic law and early Christian ethics In this volume thirteen respected scholars explore the relationship between the Mosaic law and early Christian ethics, examining early Christian appropriation of the Torah and looking at ways in which the law continued to serve as an ethical reference point for Christ-believers -- whether or not they thought Torah observance was essential. These noteworthy essays compare differences in interpretation and application of the law between Christians and non-Christian Jews; investigate ways in which Torah-inspired ethical practices helped Christ-believing communities articulate their distinct identities and social responsibilities; and look at how presentations of the law in early Christian literature might inform Christian social and ethical practices today. Posing a unified set of questions to a diverse range of texts, Torah Ethics and Early Christian Identity will stimulate new thinking about a complex phenomenon commonly overlooked by scholars and church leaders alike.

Author : Jonathan Vroom
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004381643
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism written by Jonathan Vroom and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, Vroom tracks the emergence of legal obligation in early Judaism. He draws from legal theory to develop a means of identifying instances in which ancient interpreters treated a legal text as a source of binding obligation.

Author : David Lincicum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783161567094
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Law and Lawlessness in Early Judaism and Early Christianity written by David Lincicum and published by . This book was released on 2019 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: According to a persistent popular stereotype, early Judaism is seen as a "legalistic" religious tradition, in contrast to early Christianity, which seeks to obviate and so to supersede, annul, or abrogate Jewish law. Although scholars have known better since the surge of interest in the question of the law in post-Holocaust academic circles, the complex stances of both early Judaism and early Christianity toward questions of law observance have resisted easy resolution or sweeping generalizations. The essays in this volume aim to bring to the fore the legalistic and antinomian dimensions in both traditions, with a variety of contributions that examine the formative centuries of these two great religions and thier legal traditions. They explore how law and lawlessness are in tension throughout this early, formative period, and not finally resolved in one direction or the other.

Author : Gordon M. Zerbe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781474266253
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Non-retaliation in Early Jewish and New Testament Texts written by Gordon M. Zerbe and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I. The ethics of non-retaliation in early Judaism -- II. The ethics of non-retaliation in the New Testament.

Author : Joseph Blenkinsopp
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 190 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Wisdom and Law in the Old Testament written by Joseph Blenkinsopp and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1983 with total page 190 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a completely revised and expanded edition of a classic text. Drawing on recent work on legal and didactic material and including more literary interpretation, Blenkinsopp traces the course of two related key traditions--law and wisdom--throughout the history of Israel in the biblicalperiod. He demonstrates their essential lines of continuity with classical Jewish thought and early Christian theology.

Author : J. L. Houlden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567559866
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ethics and the New Testament written by J. L. Houlden and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2004-05-01 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For centuries Christians have referred to the New Testament for guidance on moral conduct. But did the writers of the New Testament themselves agree on such questions as divorce, political obedience, wealth and the toleration of other religions? And have their often inconsistent views any relevance today? In Ethics and the New Testament, the author applies strict critical standards to the Gospels, epistles and other writings, which he examines in historical perspective. His explanation of contemporary attitudes-including gnosticism-helps to clarify the striking moral differences between Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, James and Paul. He attempts to discern the ethical standards and teachings of Jesus which are sometimes hidden in the present Biblical texts. And finally, he relates the moral injunctions of Christianity's central text to the modern age.

Author : Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 9780567087348
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Law in Gentile Churches written by Markus Bockmuehl and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2000-11-20 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did the Gentile church keep Old Testament commandments about sex and idolatry, but disregard many others, like those about food or ritual purity? If there were any binding norms, what made them so, and on what basis were they articulated?In this important study, Markus Bockmuehl approaches such questions by examining the halakhic (Jewish legal) rationale behind the ethics of Jesus, Paul and the early Christians. He offers fresh and often unexpected answers based on careful biblical and historical study. His arguments have far-reaching implications not only for the study of the New Testament, but more broadly for the relationship between Christianity and Judaism.

Author : Christopher J.H. Wright
Publisher : InterVarsity Press
ISBN 13 : 0830864946
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Old Testament Ethics for the People of God written by Christopher J.H. Wright and published by InterVarsity Press. This book was released on 2013-01-30 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nothing confuses Christian ethics quite like the Old Testament. Some faithful readers struggle through its pages and conclude that they must obey its moral laws but may disregard its ceremonial and civil laws. Others abandon its teaching altogether in favor of a strictly New Testament ethic. Neither option, argues Chris Wright, gives the Old Testament its due. In this innovative approach to Old Testament ethics--fully revised, updated and expanded since its first appearance in 1983 as Living as the People of God (An Eye for an Eye in North America) and including material from Walking in the Ways of the Lord--Wright examines a theological, social and economic framework for Old Testament ethics. Then he explores a variety of themes in relation to contemporary issues: economics, the land and the poor; politics and a world of nations; law and justice; society and culture; and the way of the individual. This fresh, illuminating study provides a clear basis for a biblical ethic that is faithful to the God of both Testaments.

Author : Shmuly Yanklowitz
Publisher : Derusha Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781935104148
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Jewish Ethics and Social Justice written by Shmuly Yanklowitz and published by Derusha Publishing. This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: We make religion irrelevant when we lock it up in the house of prayer - when we keep religion away from the streets. If we want Judaism to matter in today's world, we must respond - deeply - to society's call. The Torah is a living tradition that we need to bring to the most urgent social issues of our time. We must fully enter the public arena, recognizing that our common responsibilities transcend our particular paths. The essence of spiritual life shines at the core of all the crude and harsh realities we see every day - and when we ignore these realities, we are like blind fish completely unaware of the very water in which they swim. Jewish Ethics & Social Justice is a collection of sweeping meditations on how to make Judaism universally relevant again. Explore hot social issues - global hunger, prison reform, worker rights, and more - through the eyes of the Jewish ethical tradition. Learn about the core values of Jewish activism - discover a deeper connection to the timeless issu