Torah in the New Testament by Tait, Michael; Oakes, Peter;

Torah in the New Testament is a collection of papers delivered at the Manchester-Lausanne Seminar of June 2008. This also involved contributions from the Universities of Sheffield, Geneva and the Ben Gurion University of the Negev. The purpose of the seminar was to offer some significant studies on the general topic of the Torah in the New Testament with particular reference to methodological issues, to the Jesus traditions in the Gospels, and to Paul and the Law.

Two previous collections of papers from these scholarly co-operations have been published in the Library of New Testament Studies: C.M. Tuckett (ed.), Luke's Literary Achievement: Collected Essays (LNTS 116, 1995) and T. Klutz (ed.), Magic in the Biblical World: From the Road of Aaron to the Ring of Solomon (LNTS 245, 2003). This collection will be of great interest to New Testament scholars who are actively engaged in research on the relationship between early Christianity and the Jewish Torah.

It contains cutting-edge comments on issues of methodology in such debates and on both Jesus and the Law and Paul and the Law. Since the landmark works of Sanders and others in the 1980s these topics have been of considerable interest to scholars who are trying to represent Jesus, Paul and early Christianity in a suitable Jewish context.

Acknowledgements

List of Abbreviations

Notes on Contributors

Introduction



Part I - Gospels

Mark 7.1-23: Revisiting the Question of 'All Foods Clean' James Crossley



The Salvific Significance of the Torah in Mark 10.17-22 and 12.28-34

Arseny Ermakov



The Source Q and the Torah

Andreas Dettwiler



Jesus, Son of Joseph and Son of David, in the Gospels

Thomas Römer and Jan Rückl



The Rhetorical Function of John's Portrayal of the Jewish Law

Sean Winter



Part II - Acts



Paul and the Torah in the Acts of the Apostles

Daniel Marguerat



Acts 15 or the 'Return of the Repressed'? The Church and the Law in Acts

Simon Butticaz



Some Observations on the Apostolic Decree in Acts 15.20, 29 (and 21.25)

Emmanuelle Steffeck



Part III - Letters



Law and Theology in Galatians

Peter Oakes



Helping Paul's Argument Work? The Curse of Galatians 3.10-14

Barry Matlock



Torah, Rewritten Torah and the Letter of Jude

George Brooke



Part IV - Other Texts



The End of the Law: The Messianic Torah in the Pseudepigrapha

Michael Tait



Educating Gentiles: Explanations of Torah in the New Testament, Philo and Josephus

Roger Tomes



Legislation as Social Engineering in the New Testament World

Gerald Downing



Filled with the Glory of God: The Appropriation of Tabernacle Imagery in the New Testament and Gregory of Nyssa

Ann Conway-Jones



Index of References



Index of Authors