Israel's God and Rebecca's Children: Christology and Community in Early Judaism and Christianity

by David B. Capes, April D. DeConick, Helen K. Bond, Troy A. Miller

Overview

Israel's God and Rebecca's Children is a collection of essays written as a tribute to the lasting scholarship and friendship of Larry Hurtado (University of Edinburgh) and Alan Segal (Barnard College), two scholars who have contributed significantly to the contemporary understanding of Second Temple and Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. Their colleagues and friends examine a wide range of topics that have been the focus of Hurtado and Segal's research, including Christology, community, Jewish-Christian relations, soteriology and the development of early Christianity. Together these essays reconceptualize Christology and community in Judaism and Christianity and provide valuable insights into the issues of community and identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781602581753
Publisher:	Baylor University Press
Publication date:	11/01/2011
Series:	Library of Early Christology
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	510
File size:	2 MB

About the Author

David B. Capes is Associate Dean of Biblical&Theological Studies and Professor of New Testament at Wheaton College. His books include Old Testament Yahweh Texts in Paul's Christology (Mohr Siebeck, 1992), The Footsteps of Jesus in the Holy Land (Steimatsky, 1999), The Last Eyewitness: The Final Week (Thomas Nelson, 2006), and Rediscovering Paul: An Introduction to His World, Letters and Theology (InterVarsity, 2007). He serves as the senior theological review editor for THE VOICE, a joint project of Thomas Nelson and Ecclesia Bible Society. Since the early 1990s he has been active in interfaith dialogue in Houston and co-hosts a radio show called "A Show of Faith" on TALK RADIO 950 KPRC Houston.

April D. DeConick is the Isla Carroll and Percy E. Turner Professor of Biblical Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at Rice University (Houston, Texas). She specializes in early Christian history and theology, noncanonical Gospels, and gnostic and mystical traditions. Her books include Seek to See Him: Ascent and Vision Mysticism in the Gospel of Thomas (1996); Voices of the Mystics: Early Christian Discourse in the Gospels of John and Thomas and Other Ancient Christian Literature (Sheffield Academic, 2001); Recovering the Original Gospel of Thomas: A History of the Gospel and Its Growth (T.&T. Clark, 2005); and The Original Gospel of Thomas in Translation, with Commentary and New English Translation of the Complete Gospel (T.&T. Clark, 2006). She has also edited the collection of papers, Paradise Now: Essays on Early Jewish and Christian Mysticism (SBL, 2006).

Helen K. Bond studied at the Universities of St Andrews, Durham and Tübingen. She is Senior Lecturer in New Testament Language, Literature and Theology at the University of Edinburgh, where she has taught since 2000. She is interested in the historical, political and social background to the gospels, particularly the passion narratives, and the life (and execution) of Jesus of Nazareth. Her publications include Pontius Pilate in History and Interpretation (SNTSMS 100; Cambridge University Press, 1998) and Caiaphas: Friend of Rome and Judge of Jesus? (Westminster John Knox, 2004).

Troy A. Miller is Dean and Assistant Professor of Bible&Theology in the School of Bible&Theology at Crichton College (Memphis, TN). He holds a PhD in New Testament Language, Literature, and Theology from the University of Edinburgh and specializes in late Second Temple Judaism, Paul, and early Christian identity formation. His thesis is entitled The Emergence of the Concept of Heresy in Early Christianity and he serves as a theological review editor for THE VOICE project (Thomas Nelson).

Table of Contents

Introduction

Larry Hurtado, Alan F. Segal

PART ONE: RECONCEPTUALIZING CHRISTOLOGY AND COMMUNITY

1 How We Talk About Christology Matters, April DeConick

2 Mandatory Retirement: Ideas in the Study of Christian Origins Whose Time Has Come to Go, Paula Fredriksen

3 The "Most High" God and the Nature of Early Jewish Monotheism, Richard Bauckham

4 "How on Earth Did Jesus Become a God?": A Reply, Adela Yarbro Collins

5 Resurrection and Christology: Are They Related?, Pheme Perkins

6 Are Early New Testament Manuscripts Truly Abundant?, Eldon Jay Epp

PART TWO: STUDIES IN CHRISTOLOGY

7 Prophetic Identity and Conflict in the Historic Ministry of Jesus, Maurice Casey

8 Pauline Exegesis and the Incarnate Christ, David B. Capes

9 Christophany as a Sign of "the End", Carey C. Newman

10 When Did the Understanding of Jesus' Death as an Atoning Sacrifice First Emerge?, James D. G. Dunn

11 Discarding the Seamless Robe: The High Priesthood of Jesus in John's Gospel, Helen K. Bond

12 Remembering and Revelation: The Historic and Glorified Jesus in the Gospel of John, Larry W. Hurtado

13 Jesus: "The One Who Sees God", Marianne Meye Thompson

14 The Lamb (Not the Man) on the Divine Throne, Charles Gieschen

PART THREE: STUDIES IN COMMUNITY

15 The Promise of the Spirit of Life in the Book of Ezekiel, John R. Levison

16 Sadducees, Zadokites, and the Wisdom of Ben Sira, Jonathan Klawans

17 On the Changing Significance of the Sacred, Rachel Elior

18 Vespasian, Nerva, Jesus and Fiscus Judaicus, Paul Foster

19 Paul's Religious Experience in the Eyes of Jewish Scholars, Alan F. Segal

20 Liturgy and Communal Identity: Hellenistic Synagogal Prayer 5 and the Character of Early Syrian Christianity, Troy Miller

21 Anger, Reconcilliation, and Friendship in Matthew 5:21-26, John T. Fitzgerald

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Methodologically sophisticated, engagingly written, and imaginatively provocative, this splendid volume advances the study of Early Judaism, Christian origins, and Jewish/Christian relations.

Amy-Jill Levine

Methodologically sophisticated, engagingly written, and imaginatively provocative, this splendid volume advances the study of Early Judaism, Christian origins, and Jewish/Christian relations.

Editorial Reviews

Christology is the theological centre of Christian faith. This volume addresses the main issues in this field through the words of internationally acknowledged leading scholars. It contains valuable information and insights and will give stimuli for further research and theological work.

Martin Hengel

This attractively bound volume is a fitting tribute to Hurtado and Segal,and we can hope that such spirited yet polite and even warm conversations canproliferate among scholars. Those interested in the contents of these essayswill value these substantive contributions.

Bulletin for Biblical Research - James M. Hamilton Jr.

Methodologically sophisticated, engagingly written, and imaginatively provocative, this splendid volume advances the study of Early Judaism,

Christian origins, and Jewish/Christian relations.

--Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University Divinity School

Christology is the theological centre of Christian faith. This volume addresses the main issues in this field through the words of internationally acknowledged leading scholars. It contains valuable information and insights and will give stimuli for further research and theological work.

--Martin Hengel, University of Tübingen

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