Jewish law in gentile churches : Halakhah and the beginning of Christian public ethics
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Jewish law in gentile churches : Halakhah and the beginning of Christian public ethics
T & T Clark, 2000
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Bibliography: p. [241]-279
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Why did the Gentile church keep Old Testament commandments about sex and idolatry, but disregard many others, like those about food or ritual purity? If there were any binding norms, what made them so, and on what basis were they articulated?In this important study, Markus Bockmuehl approaches such questions by examining the halakhic (Jewish legal) rationale behind the ethics of Jesus, Paul and the early Christians. He offers fresh and often unexpected answers based on careful biblical and historical study. His arguments have far-reaching implications not only for the study of the New Testament, but more broadly for the relationship between Christianity and Judaism.
Table of Contents
Part One: Christianity in the Land of Israel
Halakhah and Ethics in the Jesus Tradition
Matthew's Divorce Texts in the Light of Pre-Rabbinic Jewish Law
'Let the Dead Bury Their Dead': Jesus and the Law Revisited
James the Just and Antioch
Part Two: Jewish and Christian Ethics for Gentiles
Natural Law in Second Temple Judaism
Natural Law in the New Testament
The Noachide Commandments and New Testament Ethics
Part Three: The Development of Public Ethics
The Beginning of Public Ethics
Jewish and Christian Public Ethics in the Early Roman Empire
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