C. D. Elledge

Early Jewish Writings and New Testament Interpretation (eBook, PDF)

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Produktbeschreibung

Early Jewish Writings and New Testament Interpretation is a concise, introductory volume to orient undergraduates, seminarians, and interested readers to some of the most important early Jewish writings that currently inform New Testament interpretation. While the literature of Early Judaism is vast, five specific literary categories stand at the forefront of modern New Testament research. These include wisdom writings, apocalypses, rewritten scriptural narratives, the Dead Sea Scrolls, and the writings of Philo and Josephus. Individual chapters explain their respective contributions toward interpreting the theological ideas, socio-historical settings, and literary features of specific New Testament writings. The volume further describes literary collections that the church would later classify as ?apocrypha? and ?pseudepigrapha,? providing an historically nuanced perspective on what ?scripture? might have looked like prior to the formation of the biblical canon. Interpreted within their ancient context, many of these writings offer insight into a religious environment in which Judaism and the nascent church were still emerging religions that had not yet gone their ?separate? ways. The reader of the New Testament today can, therefore, understand the indebtedness of the New Testament literature to traditions found in contemporary Jewish works, while also appreciating the creative, new ways in which the church interpreted them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Mai 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780190274603
• Artikelnr.: 67849424

Autorenporträt

C. D. Elledge is Associate Professor of Religion at Gustavus Adolphus College in Saint Peter, Minnesota, where he teaches courses in New Testament and Early Jewish literature. After completing his Ph.D. from Princeton Theological Seminary, Elledge served as a Fulbright Scholar at the Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology and the Ecole Biblique de Jerusalem.

Inhaltsangabe

1.Forms of "Scripture" in Early Judaism
Early Judaism
Canon and "Non-Canonical" Literature
Apocrypha or Deuterocanonical Books
Pseudepigrapha
Dead Sea Scrolls
Philo and Josephus
This Book
2.The Glory of Wisdom
The Dimensions of Wisdom
Sages and Scribes
Wisdom Writings
The Wisdom of Jesus ben Sira
The Wisdom of Solomon
Wisdom in the New Testament
3.In the Last Days
Apocalyptic Literature
Apocalyptic Thought
1 Enoch
Post-70 CE Apocalypses
4 Ezra
2 Baruch
Apocalypse of Abraham
Apocalypticism in the New Testament
4.Rewriting Scripture
Explicit Interpretation
Implicit Interpretation
Rewritten Scriptures
Jubilees
Biblical Antiquities (Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum)
Scriptural Interpretation in the New Testament
5.In the Wilderness
The Community of the Dead Sea Scrolls
Scriptural Manuscripts and Their Interpretation
Rule Documents
Legal Writings
Psalms, Hymns, Prayers
Wisdom and Apocalypticism
The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament
6.Jews, Greeks, and Romans
Philo of Alexandria
Philo and the New Testament
Josephus
Josephus and the New Testament
Glossary
Works Cited
Index of Sources