Scripture and traditions
Subtitle: essays on early Judaism and Christianity in honor of Carl R. Holladay
By: edited by Patrick Gray and Gail R. O'Day.
Contributors: Holladay, Carl R.; Gray, Patrick, 1970-; O'Day, Gail R., 1954-
Series: Supplements to novum testamentum -- v. 129
Publisher: Brill; Brill Academic Pub
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 502
ISBN-13: 9789004167476
Subjects: Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc; Christianity and other religions -- Judaism; Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity; Judaism -- History -- Post-exilic period, 586 B.C.-210 A.D
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Hellenistic judaism; title: Disrespecting Dionysus : 3 Maccabees as narrative satire of the God of wine / N. Clayton Croy; title: Jewish identity and hellenism in the fragmentary Jewish writings in Greek / Lester L. Grabbe; title: The constitution of compassion : political re-ections on Philo's De humanitate / Walter T. Wilson; title: Moses, the exodus, and comparative chronology / William Adler; title: The New Testament in context; title: Turning to God : conversion in Greek-speaking Judaism and early Christianity / Gregory E. Sterling; title: The messianic use of Zechariah 9-14 in Matthew, Mark, and the pre-markan tradition / Mark Black; title: Performance anxiety : the use of in Matthew 6:1-18 / Michael Joseph Brown; title: Is Matthew 18:15-17 about "church discipline"? / Sharyn Dowd; title: The noble and good heart in Luke's parable of the sower / John B. Weaver; title: The "Word of God" and retribution theology in Luke-Acts / Scott Shauf; title: "Your sons and your daughters will prophesy ..." : pairings of men and women in Luke-Acts / Allen Black; title: The citation of Scripture as a key to characterization in Acts / Gail R. O'day; title: Luke's "plan of God" from the Greek psalter : the rhetorical thrust of "the prophets and the Psalms" in Peter's speech at Pentecost / David P. Moessner; title: Self-presentation and community construction in Philippians / Steven J. Kraftchick; title: How to treat old women and old men : the use of philosophical traditions and Scripture in 1 Timothy 5 / Abraham J. Malherbe; title: Proverbs 3:11-12, Hebrews 12:5-6, and the tradition of corporal punishment / John T. Fitzgerald; title: The history of interpretation; title: The early reception of Hebrews 6:4-6 / Patrick Gray; title: The Apocalypse in Codex Alexandrinus : its singular readings and scribal habits / Juan Hernandez, Jr.; title: Exegetical and theological presuppositions in nineteenth-century American commentaries on Acts / Thomas H. Olbricht; title: Narrative criticism and translation : Luke-Acts and the case of the NRSV / Luke Timothy Johnson; title: Paul and racial reconciliation : a postcolonial approach to 2 Corinthians 3:12-18 / Brad R. Braxton; title: Die judenfrage and the construction of ancient Judaism : toward a foregrounding of the backgrounds approach to early Christianity / Todd Penner.