Originally published: Tùˆbingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2008. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
The martyrdom of Enoch and Elijah : Jewish or Christian? -- Enoch and Elijah in the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah -- The rise of apocalyptic -- The delay of the parousia -- A note on a problem in the Greek version 1 of Enoch 1.9 -- The son of man: 'a man in my position' or 'someone'? -- The apocalypses in the new pseudepigrapha -- Pseudo-apostolic letters -- Kainam the son of Arpachshad in Luke's geneaology -- The list of the tribes of Israel in Revelation 7 -- The parting of the ways : what happened and why -- The messianic interpretation of Isaiah 10:34 -- The relevance of extra-canonical Jewish texts to New Testament study -- Josephus' account of the temple in Contra Apionem 2.102-109 -- Life, death, and the afterlife in second temple Judaism -- What if Paul had traveled east instead of west? -- Covenant, law and salvation in the Jewish apocalypses -- The restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts -- Paul and other Jews with Latin names in the New Testament -- The horarium of Adam and the chronology of the passion -- The spirit of God in us loathes envy (James 4:5) -- Tobit as a parable for the exiles of northern Israel -- The continuing quest for the provenance of Old Testament pseudepigrapha.
Summary:
New Testament texts cannot be adequately understood without careful attention to their Judaic and Second Temple roots. This volume contains twenty-four studies that shed essential light on the religious and biblical-interpretative matrix in which early Christianity emerged. Richard Bauckham covers many aspects of the literature and thought of early Judaism, including life after death, the provenance of the Pseudeprigrapha, the Jewish apocalypses, the book of Tobit, and more.
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