Law and lawlessness in early Judaism and early Christianity
By: edited by David Lincicum, Ruth Sheridan, and Charles Stang
Series: Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament -- 420
Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Tübingen
Language: eng; gre
Number of pages: 232
ISBN-13: 9783161567087; 9783161567094
Subjects: Jewish law; History
Description: According to a persistent popular stereotype, early Judaism is seen as a "legalistic" religious tradition, in contrast to early Christianity, which seeks to obviate and so to supersede, annul, or abrogate Jewish law. Although scholars have known better since the surge of interest in the question of the law in post-Holocaust academic circles, the complex stances of both early Judaism and early Christianity toward questions of law observance have resisted easy resolution or sweeping generalizations. The essays in this volume aim to bring to the fore the legalistic and antinomian dimensions in both traditions, with a variety of contributions that examine the formative centuries of these two great religions and thier legal traditions. They explore how law and lawlessness are in tension throughout this early, formative period, and not finally resolved in one direction or the other.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Law and lawlessness in texts from Qumran / Lutz Doering; title: Law and lawlessness in the Enoch literature / Grant Macaskill; title: Paul: within Judaism, without law / Joshua D. Garroway; title: Origen and Augustine on Paul and the law / Paula Fredriksen; title: Weak and useless? Purity, the Mosaic Law, and perfection in Hebrews / David M. Moffitt; title: Against the law: The Epistle of Barnabas and Torah Polemic in Early Christianity / David Lincicum; title: The ancient church orders: early ecclesiastical law? / Paul F. Bradshaw; title: Rabbis on gentile lawlessness. Three Midrashic moments / Steven D. Fraade; title: Law Corpora compared: early collections of Moastic rules and Rabbinic literature / Michal Bar-Asher Siegal; title: "By an immediate revelation ... by the voice of his own spirit to my soul": A perspective from Reception History on the New Testament and Antinomianism / Christopher Rowland; title: Law and liberty: Circumcision discourse from Galatia to Germany / Michael Peppard.