New covenant, new community : the significance of biblical and patristic covenant theology for contemporary understanding / [print]
Petrus J. Grabe.
- Milton Keynes : Paternoster Press, (c)2006.
- xx, 254 pages ; 23 cm.
A "renaissance" of covenant theology -- The Old Testament background for understanding the covenant concept in the New Testament -- The (new) covenant in early Judaism -- The (new) covenant in the Jesus tradition -- The new covenant in Pauline literature -- The new covenant in the Epistle to the Hebrews -- The reflection of the concept of the new covenant in the Johannine literature -- The new covenant in the second century -- The new covenant in the Syrian tradition: Aphrahat -- The new covenant: Christian identity and the dialogue with the Jews -- The reception of the new covenant in the history of theology: two perspectives -- Transmission and reinterpretation: interpretive trajectories for a "theology of a new covenent."