The reception of Jewish tradition in the social imagination of the early Christians /
edited by John M.G. Barclay and Kylie Crabbe.
- 263pages.
- The reception of Jesus in the first three centuries ; 8 .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction / John M.G. Barclay and Kylie Crabbe -- The early Christian reception of the legend of the Greek translation of the Scriptures / Judith M. Lieu -- The law and the prophets as Origen's gospel / Devin L. White -- The reception of the Watchers tradition in Tertullian, with regard to 1 Cor. 11.2-16 / Stephen C. Carlson -- 'Not like the gentiles who do not know God' (1 Thess 4:5). The function of othering and anti-gentile stereotypes of sexual wrongdoing in early Jewish and Christian texts / Christine Gerber -- Patterns of Christian reinterpretations of the Maccabean martyrdoms / Jan Willem van Henten -- 'The blind and the lame' : an adapted category in early Christian communal self-understanding / Kylie Crabbe -- The ethics of Eden : luxury, banqueting, and the New Jerusalem / Candida R. Moss -- Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Trypho : Jewish leadership and Jesus traditions in Justin's construal of Christian and Jewish identity / Benjamin A. Edsall -- Denial of forgiveness and the Spirit : 'anxiety of influence' and the Christian demotion of John's baptism / Joel Marcus -- Tradition and authority in scribal culture : a comparison between the Yaḥadic Dead Sea Scroll texts and the Gospel of Matthew / Loren T. Stuckenbruck -- Remember the poor : early Christian reception of a Jewish communal responsibility / John M.G. Barclay.
"A reconsideration of the reception of Jewish traditions and texts in early Christianity by leading international contributors"--
Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600. Christianity and other religions--Judaism. Judaism--Relations--Christianity. Identification (Religion)