Bauckham, Richard,

The Jewish world around the New Testament / [print] Richard Bauckham. - Grand Rapids, Michigan : Baker Academic, (c)2010. - vi, 548 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Originally published: Tubingen : Mohr Siebeck, 2008.



Introduction -- The martyrdom of Enoch and Elijah: Jewish or Christian? -- Enoch and Elijah in the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah -- The rise of apocalyptic -- The delay of the parousia -- A note on a problem in the Greek version 1 of Enoch 1.9 -- The son of man: 'a man in my position' or 'someone'? -- The apocalypses in the new pseudepigrapha -- Pseudo-apostolic letters -- Kainam the son of Arpachshad in Luke's geneaology -- The list of the tribes of Israel in Revelation 7 -- The parting of the ways: what happened and why -- The messianic interpretation of Isaiah 10:34 -- The relevance of extra-canonical Jewish texts to New Testament study -- Josephus' account of the temple in Contra Apionem 2.102-109 -- Life, death, and the afterlife in second temple Judaism -- What if Paul had traveled east instead of west? -- Covenant, law and salvation in the Jewish apocalypses -- The restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts -- Paul and other Jews with Latin names in the New Testament -- The horarium of Adam and the chronology of the passion -- The spirit of God in us loathes envy Tobit as a parable for the exiles of northern Israel -- The continuing quest for the provenance of Old Testament pseudepigrapha. (James 4:5) --



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Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bible.--New Testament.


Judaism--Relations--Christianity.
Judaism--History--To 70 A.D.

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