Scripture and Traditions

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xvi, 504 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Patrick Gray, Ph.D. (2002) in Religion, Emory University, is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Rhodes College. He is the author of Godly Fear: The Epistle to Hebrews and Greco-Roman Critiques of Superstition (Brill/SBL, 2003).
Gail O'Day, Ph.D. (1983) in Religion, Emory University, is Associate Dean of Faculty and Academic Affairs and A. H. Shatford Professor of Preaching and New Testament at Candler School of Theology, Emory University. She is the author of John: Introduction, Commentary, and Reflections, NIB IX (Abingdon, 1995), and several other works on the Gospel of John.
Contributors include Abraham J. Malherbe, John T. Fitzgerald, L. L. Grabbe, Gregory Sterling, William Adler, Luke Timothy Johnson, and Thomas H. Olbricht.

Readership

All those interested in the New Testament, Second Temple Judaism, and the Greco-Roman context of early Christianity.

Preface
Abbreviations
List of Contributors

I. Hellenistic Judaism

N. CLAYTON CROY
Disrespecting Dionysus: 3 Maccabees as Narrative Satire of the God of Wine

LESTER L. GRABBE
Jewish Identity and Hellenism in the Fragmentary Jewish Writings in Greek

WALTER T. WILSON
The Constitution of Compassion: Political Reflections on Philo’s De humanitate

WILLIAM ADLER
Moses, the Exodus, and Comparative Chronology

II. The New Testament in Context

GREGORY STERLING
Turning to God: Conversion in Greek-Speaking Judaism and Early Christianity

MARK BLACK
The Messianic Use of Zechariah 9-14 in Matthew, Mark, and the Pre-Markan Tradition

MICHAEL JOSEPH BROWN
Performance Anxiety: The Use of UPOKRITHS in Matthew 6:1-18

SHARYN DOWD
Is Matthew 18:15-17 about “Church Discipline”?

JOHN B. WEAVER
The Noble and Good Heart: Kaloka\gaqi/a in Luke’s Parable of the Sower

SCOTT SHAUF
The “Word of God” and Retribution Theology in Luke-Acts

ALLEN BLACK
“Your Sons and Your Daughters Will Prophesy . . .”: Pairings of Men and Women in Luke-Acts

GAIL R. O’DAY
The Citation of Scripture as a Key to Characterization in Acts

DAVID P. MOESSNER
Luke’s “Plan of God” from the Greek Psalter: The Rhetorical Thrust of “The Prophets and the Psalms” in Peter’s Speech at Pentecost

STEVEN J. KRAFTCHICK
Self-Presentation and Community Construction in Philippians

ABRAHAM J. MALHERBE
How to Treat Old Women and Old Men: The Use of Philosophical Traditions and Scripture in 1 Timothy 5

JOHN T. FITZGERALD
Proverbs 3:11-12, Hebrews 12:5-6, and the Tradition of Corporal Punishment

III. The History of Interpretation

PATRICK GRAY
The Early Reception of Hebrews 6:4-6

JUAN HERNÁNDEZ JR.
The Apocalypse in Codex Alexandrinus: Its Singular Readings and Scribal Habits

THOMAS H. OLBRICHT
Exegetical and Theological Presuppositions in Nineteenth-Century American Commentaries on Acts

LUKE TIMOTHY JOHNSON
Narrative Criticism and Translation: Luke-Acts and the Case of the NRSV

BRAD R. BRAXTON
Paul and Racial Reconciliation: A Postcolonial Approach to 2 Corinthians 3:12-18

TODD PENNER
Die Judenfrage and the Construction of Ancient Judaism: Toward a Foregrounding of the Backgrounds Approach to Early Christianity

Publications of Carl R. Holladay
Scripture Index
Index of Modern Authors

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153

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9789004255821

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Divine Visitations and Hospitality in Luke-Acts

Joshua W. Jipp, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School

In Divine Visitations and Hospitality to Strangers in Luke-Acts, Joshua W. Jipp offers an interpretation of the Malta Episode in Acts 28:1-10, an interpretation that highlights the practice of hospitality to strangers within Luke-Acts and the broader ancient Mediterranean world.

€109.00$141.00

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152

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God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul's Letter to the Romans

Jonathan A. Linebaugh, Knox Theological Seminary

In God, Grace, and Righteousness in Wisdom of Solomon and Paul's Letter to the Romans Jonathan A. Linebaugh places the Wisdom of Solomon and the Letter to the Romans in conversation.

€123.00$171.00

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151

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9789004251755

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Order and (Dis)order in the First Christian Century

F. Gerald Downing

Law and order found widespread support in the world of the first Christians – and, perhaps surprisingly, also trenchant critiques. Justice was not by any means always seen to be done. Acceptance and dissent appear from Jesus and Paul, onwards.

€254.00$329.00

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150

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Bibliographic Set

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9789004253391

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Light from the Gentiles: Hellenistic Philosophy and Early Christianity

Edited by Carl R. Holladay, Emory University, John T. Fitzgerald, University of Notre Dame, James W. Thompson, Abilene Christian University, and Gregory E. Sterling, Yale University

In these fifty-three essays spanning over fifty years Abraham J. Malherbe illustrates how a critically informed appreciation of Graeco-Roman literary traditions such as Hellenistic moral philosophy and Middle Platonism can enrich our understanding of Paul, Athenagoras, and other early Christian ...

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149

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9789004250260

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Paul, John, and Apocalyptic Eschatology

Edited by Jan Krans, Bert Jan Lietaert Peerbolte, Peter-Ben Smit and Arie Zwiep

These studies in honour of Martinus C. de Boer offer important backgrounds and new insights by leading New Testament scholars on Paul, John, and Apocalyptic Eschatology.

€164.00$228.00

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148

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9789004231009

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New Title

The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian Tradition

Edited by Bart J. Koet, University of Tilburg, Steve Moyise, University of Chichester and Joseph Verheyden, Catholic University of Leuven

The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian Tradition is a collection of studies in honour of Professor Maarten J.J. Menken (Tilburg) and addresses questions of textual form, Jewish and Christian hermeneutics and notions of authority and inspiration.

€164.00$228.00

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147

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9789004244993

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Moral Education for Women in the Pastoral and Pythagorean Letters

Annette Bourland Huizenga, University of Dubuque

In Moral Education for Women in the Pastoral and Pythagorean Letters: Philosophers of the Household, Annette Bourland Huizenga examines the Greco-Roman moral-philosophical “curriculum” for women by comparing these two pseudepigraphic epistolary collections.

€214.00$297.00

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146

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9789004242906

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Contested Issues in Christian Origins and the New Testament

Luke Timothy Johnson, Candler School of Theology, Emory University

In Contested Issues in Christian Origins and the New Testament, Luke Timothy Johnson offers a series of independent studies on a range of critical questions from the historical Jesus to sexuality and law.

€176.00$245.00

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145

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9789004241893

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Persecution in 1 Peter

Travis B. Williams, Tusculum College

In Persecution in 1 Peter, Travis B. Williams offers a comprehensive and detailed socio-historical investigation into the nature of persecution in 1 Peter, situating the epistle against the backdrop of conflict management in first-century CE Asia Minor.

€101.00$140.00

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144

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9789004228436

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The Fourth Gospel and the Scriptures

Wm. Randolph Bynum, Northwest Nazarene University

In The Fourth Gospel and the Scriptures, Bynum presents new insights from ancient biblical manuscripts 4QXII and the Minor Prophets Scroll that help unlock the mystery of John’s unique form of scriptural citation.