Jewish Law in Gentile Churches : Halakhah and

shows how early Christianity was indebted to, not free from, Jewish moral teaching.

Markus Bockmuehl (PhD, University of Cambridge) is a fellow of Keble College and professor of biblical and early Christian studies at the University of Oxford. His books include Jewish Law in Gentile Churches, Philippians in Black's New Testament Commentary series, and Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study.

Preface

vii

Abbreviations

xvii

PART ONE: Christianity in the Land of Israel

1

(84)

1. Halakhah and Ethics in the Jesus Tradition

3

(14)

The Precedence of Written Torah

4

(2)

'The Weightier Things of the Torah'

6

(2)

Act and Motive

8

(2)

Purity and Integrity

10

(2)

Antinomian Eschatology?

12

(2)

Conclusion

14

(3)

2. Matthew's Divorce Texts in the Light of Pre-Rabbinic Jewish Law

17

(6)

3. 'Let the Dead Bury their Dead': Jesus and the Law Revisited

23

(26)

The Prevailing Consensus

23

(3)

Assessment of the Case for the Prevailing Consensus

26

(8)

Possible Ways Forward

34

(2)

Nazirite Halakhah

36

(10)

Conclusion

46

(3)

4. James, Israel and Antioch

49

(36)

First-Century Antioch

51

(10)

Antioch from the Perspective of the Land of Israel

61

(9)

Four Theses on James the Just and Antioch

70

(12)

Conclusion

82

(3)

PART TWO: Jewish and Christian Ethics for Gentiles

85

(90)

5. Natural Law in Second Temple Judaism

87

(26)

The Old Testament

88

(9)

Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

97

(6)

The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Rabbinic Literature

103

(4)

Philo and Josephus

107

(3)

Conclusions

110

(3)

6. Natural Law in the New Testament?

113

(32)

'Nature' and other Conundrums

113

(4)

Jesus and the Gospels

117

(9)

The Acts of the Apostles

126

(1)

Paul

127

(13)

Conclusion

140

(5)

7. The Noachide Commandments and New Testament Ethics

145

(30)

Methodological Concerns

146

(2)

Form and Substance in New Testament Ethics

148

(2)

The Noachide Commandments

150

(12)

Noachide Law and the New Testament

162

(10)

Conclusion

172

(3)

PART THREE: The Development of Public Ethics

175

(66)

8. The Beginning of Christian Public Ethics: From Luke to Aristides and Diognetus

177

(52)

Three Beginnings

177

(9)

New Testament Antecedents

186

(8)

Public Ethics in the Second Century

194

(7)

The Earliest Apologists

201

(1)

Aristides of Athens

202

(13)

The Epistle to Diognetus

215

(7)

Conclusion

222

(7)

9. Jewish and Christian Public Ethics in the Early Roman Empire

229

(12)

The Problem of Halakhah in Jewish and Christian Ethics

230

(3)

Jewish Public Ethics

233

(3)

Characteristics of the Christian Approach

236

(2)

Conclusion

238

(3)

Bibliography

241

(40)

List of First Publications

281

(2)

Index of Ancient Sources

283

(20)

Index of Modern Authors

303

(6)

Index of Subjects

309

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Jewish Law in Gentile Churches : Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics

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