John W Welch

The Sermon on the Mount in the Light of the Temple

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

No religious text has influenced the world more than has the New Testament's Sermon on the Mount, and yet this crucial text still begs to be more clearly understood. This book offers new insights by seeing it in the shadow of the all-pervasive Temple in Jerusalem, which dominated the religious landscape of the world of Jesus and his earliest disciples. Analyzing Matthew 5-7 in light of biblical and Jewish backgrounds, ritual studies, and oral performances in early Christian worship, this reading coherently integrates every line in the Sermon, and positions it as the premier Christian mystery.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780754651642
• ISBN-10: 0754651649
• Artikelnr.: 57058390

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface
The quest for a unifying understanding of the Sermon on the Mount
The temple on the mount
Hearing a temple register in the Beatitudes
The creation of a new covenantal relationship
A higher order of righteousness and consecration
Blessings and consequences of righteousness or unrighteousness
Unifying the Sermon with temple themes and ritual theory
Conclusions and further implications
Select bibliography
Indexes.