Inhalt: | Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction / John Barclay, University of Durham, UK and Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, Australia -- I. The Reception of Jewish Texts -- 1. The Origins of the Greek Translations of the Scriptures / Judith Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK -- 2. Is Moses Among the Evangelists? Jews, Christians, and the 'Gospel' in Origen's Commentary on John / Devin White, Australian Catholic University, Australia -- 3. The Reception of the Watchers in Tertullian, with regard to 1 Cor - 11:2-16 / Stephen Carlson, Australian Catholic University, Australia -- 4. What Happened to the Hands? Paul's Scriptural Construction of the 'Righteousness that Comes From Faith' in Rom - 10:1-10 / Reimund Bieringer, KU Leuven, Belgium -- II. The Reception of Jewish Themes, Images, and Categories -- 5. 'Not Like the Gentiles Who Do Not Know God' (1 Thess -- 4:5). The Function of Othering and Anti-Pagan Stereotypes of Sexual Wrongdoing in Early Jewish and Christian Texts / Christine Gerber, University of Hamburg, Germany -- 6. Patterns of Christian Reinterpretations of the Maccabean Martyrs / Jan Willem van Henten, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands -- 7. The Ethics of Eden: Luxury, Banqueting, and the New Jerusalem / Candida Moss, University of Birmingham, UK -- 8. Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Trypho: Jewish Leadership and Jesus Traditions in Justin s Construal of Christian and Jewish Identity / Benjamin Edsall, Australian Catholic University, Australia -- 9. The Blind and the Lame : An Adapted Category in Early Christian Communal Self-understanding / Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, Australia -- III. The Reception of Jewish Practices -- 10. Denial of Forgiveness and the Spirit: 'Anxiety of Influence' and the Christian Demotion of John's Baptism / Joel Marcus, Duke Divinity School, USA -- 11. 'Meeting Together' as Social Practice in Jewish and Early Christian Circles / Edward Adams, King's College London, UK -- 12. The Anonymous 'Matthew' as Scribe: Scribal Culture, Negotiating Tradition, and the Tradition-historical Paradigm Shared with Yahadic Dead Sea Texts / Loren Stuckenbruck, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany -- 13. Remember the Poor: Early Christian Refocusing of a Jewish Communal Responsibility / John Barclay, University of Durham, UK -- Bibliography -- Indexes. "The essays in this volume take as their theme the reception of Jewish traditions in early Christianity, and the ways in which the meaning of these traditions changed as they were put to work in new contexts and for new social ends. The contributors places emphasis on the internal variety and malleability of these traditions, which underwent continual processes of change within Judaism, and on reception as an active, strategic, and interested process. All the essays in this volume seek to bring out how acts of reception contribute to the social formation of early Christianity, in its social imagination (its speech and thought about itself) or in its social practices, or both. The volume challenges static notions of tradition and passive ideas of reception , stressing creativity and the significance of strong readings of tradition. It thus complicates standard narratives of the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism , showing how even claims to continuity were bound to make the same different."-- |
