Acts of God in history
Subtitle: studies towards recovering a theological historiography
By: Roland Deines ; edited by Christoph Ochs and Peter Watts
Contributors: Ochs, Christoph, 1977- editor; Watts, Peter, 1981- editor
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 317; Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 317.
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Tübingen, Germany
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9783161521812
Subjects: Historiography; Bible; Christian sociology; Christianity; God (Christianity); Hermeneutics; Heilsgeschichte; Theology; Gott; History
Notes: 10 of 11 contributions were published previously (4 in German, 6 in English).

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: God's role in history as a methodological problem for exegesis; title: The social profile of the Pharisees; title: Jesus the Galilean: questioning the function of Galilee in recent Jesus research; title: Jesus and the Jewish traditions of His time; title: The Apostolic Decree: halakhah for Gentile Christians or concession to Jewish taboos?; title: How long? : God's revealed schedule for salvation and the outbreak of the Bar Kokhba revolt; title: Biblical viewpoints on repentance, conversion, and turning to God; title: The term and concept of Scripture; title: The recognition of God's acts in history in the Gospel of Matthew: an exercise in salvation history; title: Can the 'real' Jesus be identified with the historical Jesus? : Joseph Ratzinger's (Pope Benedict XVI) challenge to biblical scholarship; title: Pre-existence, incarnation, and messianic self-understanding of Jesus in the work of Martin Hengel.