Grace and agency in Paul and Second Temple Judaism
Subtitle: interpreting the transformation of the heart
By: by Kyle B. Wells
Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements -- volume 157; Supplements to Novum Testamentum -- v. 157.
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 374
ISBN-13: 9789004277281; 9789004277328
Subjects: Bible; Paul,; Biblical teaching; Relation to the Old Testament; Criticism, interpretation; Grace (Theology); Theology
Description: "Following recent intertextual studies, Kyle B. Wells examines how descriptions of 'heart-transformation' in Deut 30, Jer 31-32 and Ezek 36 informed Paul and his contemporaries' articulations about grace and agency. Beyond advancing our understanding of how these restoration narratives were interpreted in the LXX, the Dead Sea literature, Baruch, Jubilees, 2 Baruch, 4 Ezra, and Philo, Wells demonstrates that while most Jews in this period did not set divine and human agency in competition with one another, their constructions differed markedly and this would have contributed to vehement disagreements among them. While not sui generis in every respect, Paul's own convictions about grace and agency appear radical due to the way he reconfigures these concepts in relation to Christ."--Publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part 1. Jewish scriptures : restoration agency in Deuteronomy, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel. Deuteronomy 30 : God and Israel in the drama of restoration; title: Heart transformation in the prophets : Jeremiah and Ezekiel; title: Part 2. Early Jewish interpretation and theology. The Septuagint; title: The Dead Sea scrolls; title: The Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha; title: Philo; title: Part 3. Paul. Paul's reading of Deuteronomy 30 in Romans 2:17-29; title: Paul's reading of restoration : further considerations; title: Paul's reading of restoration outside Romans; title: Part 4. Conclusions. Conclusions.