Authors: Peter O?Brien (Editor), Peter T. O'Brien (Editor), D. Carson (Editor), Mark Seifrid (Editor), Peter T. O'Brien
ISBN-13: 9780801022722, ISBN-10: 080102272X
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Date Published: December 2001
Edition: (Non-applicable)
D. A. Carson (Ph.D., University of Cambridge) is research professor of New Testament at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is the author or editor of over forty books. Peter T. O'Brien (Ph.D., University of Manchester) is senior research fellow at Moore Theological College where he teaches New Testament and missions. Mark A. Seifrid (Ph.D., Princeton Theological Seminary) is professor of New Testament interpretation at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
A comprehension of Paul's understanding of the law and justification has been a perennial problem for historians and theologians. The need for further clarity has given rise to this collection of essays by an international list of esteemed scholars who seek, in the first of two volumes, to illuminate the complexities of the Judaism of Jesus' (and Paul's) day. Was it a legalistic religion that taught one could be justified before God by obeying law? Was it even one religion, or was it a collection of traditions with some similarities and many dissimilarities?
A second volume is forthcoming which will further this discussion among scholars through an evaluation of the paradoxes of Paul.
Preface | V | |
Contributors | XI | |
Abbreviations | XIII | |
1. | Introduction | 1 |
2. | Prayers and Psalms | 7 |
3. | Scripture-Based Stories in the Pseudepigrapha | 57 |
4. | Expansions of Scripture | 73 |
5. | Didactic Stories | 99 |
6. | Apocalypses | 135 |
7. | Testaments | 189 |
8. | Wisdom | 215 |
9. | Josephus | 241 |
10. | Torah and Salvation in Tannaitic Literature | 261 |
11. | Some Targum Themes | 303 |
12. | Philo of Alexandria | 357 |
13. | 1QS and Salvation at Qumran | 381 |
14. | Righteousness Language in the Hebrew Scriptures and Early Judaism | 415 |
15. | The Pharisees Between "Judaisms" and "Common Judaism" | 443 |
16. | Summaries and Conclusions | 505 |
Index of Ancient Names | 549 | |
Index of Modern Names | 553 | |
Scripture Index | 562 | |
Index to Apocrypha | 572 | |
Index to Pseudepigrapha | 579 | |
Index to Qumran Texts | 593 | |
Index to Philo | 601 | |
Index to Josephus | 604 | |
Index to Mishnah and Other Rabbinic Sources | 606 | |
Index to Targums | 610 | |
Index to Miscellaneous Texts | 614 | |
Subject Index | 615 |