[PDF] Law And Ethics In Early Judaism And The New Testament eBook

Author : Stephen Westerholm
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 25,43 MB
Release : 2017-10-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161551338

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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 : Jonathan Vroom
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 50,20 MB
Release : 2018-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004381643

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In The Authority of Law in the Hebrew Bible and Early Judaism, Vroom identifies a development in the authority of written law that took place in early Judaism. Ever since Assyriologists began to recognize that the Mesopotamian law collections did not function as law codes do today—as a source of binding obligation—scholars have grappled with the question of when the Pentateuchal legal corpora came to be treated as legally binding. Vroom draws from legal theory to provide a theoretical framework for understanding the nature of legal authority, and develops a methodology for identifying instances in which legal texts were treated as binding law by ancient interpreters. This method is applied to a selection of legal-interpretive texts: Ezra-Nehemiah, Temple Scroll, the Qumran rule texts, and the Samaritan Pentateuch.

Author : Wendel & Miller
Publisher : Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 29,3 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802873197

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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 : J. L. Houlden
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 45,34 MB
Release : 2004-05-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567559866

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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 : David Lincicum
Publisher :
Page : 243 pages
File Size : 23,55 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Jewish law
ISBN : 9783161567094

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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 :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,63 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Apocryphal books (Old Testament)
ISBN : 9781474266253

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I. The ethics of non-retaliation in early Judaism -- II. The ethics of non-retaliation in the New Testament.

Author : Thomas Walter Manson
Publisher :
Page : 120 pages
File Size : 42,63 MB
Release : 1960
Category : Christian ethics
ISBN :

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Brief study of the development of Christian ethics from origins in Judaism to the time of the earliest Christian community.

Author : Markus Bockmuehl
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 42,47 MB
Release : 2000-11-20
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780567087348

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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 : James Davis
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 38,17 MB
Release : 2005-02-15
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0567362116

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In Matthew 5:38-42, Jesus overrides the Old Testament teaching of 'an eye for eye and a tooth for a tooth' - the Lex Talionis law - and commands his disciples to turn the other cheek. James Davis asks how Jesus' teaching in this instance relates to the Old Testament talionic commands, how it relates to New Testament era Judaism and what Jesus required from his disciples and the church. Based on the Old Testament texts such as Leviticus 24, Exodus 22 and Deuteronomy 19, a strong case can be made that the Lex Talionis law was understood to have a literal application there are several texts that text of Leviticus 24 provides the strongest case that a literal and judicial application. However, by the second century AD and later, Jewish rabbinic leadership was essentially unified that the OT did not require a literal talion, but that financial penalties could be substituted in court matters. Yet there is evidence from Philo, Rabbi Eliezer and Josephus that in the first century AD the application of literal talion in judicial matters was a major and viable Jewish viewpoint at the time of Jesus. Jesus instruction represents a different perspective from the OT lex talionis texts and also, possibly, from the Judaism of his time. Jesus commands the general principle of not retaliation against the evil person and intended this teaching to be concretely applied, as borne out in his own life. JSNTS

Author : John Barton
Publisher :
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 47,89 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Religion
ISBN :

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Establishing the relevance of Old Testament ethics to contemporary life is an uphill task, but by the en d of Barton''s book it is clear that although the Old Testame nt comes to us from a remote context it still has some evoca tive things to say. '