B I B L I C A L S T U D I E S - The Library of New Testament Studies
The Library of New Testament Studies Chris Keith, St. Mary's University College, Twickenham, UK
Beyond Canon
Early Christianity and the Ethiopic Textual Tradition Edited by Meron Gebreananaye, Durham University, UK., Francis Watson, University of Durham, UK & Logan Williams, Durham University, UK. This volume highlights the significance of a group of five texts excluded from the standard Christian Bible and preserved only in Ge‘ez, the classical language of Ethiopia, but referenced in a wide range of other ancient manuscript traditions. Study of these texts helps break down the distinction between "Old Testament pseudepigrapha" and "New Testament apocrypha" by instead focusing on texts that were valued by early Christians. As such the volume highlights the great, and under-appreciated, importance of Ethiopia in the study of early Christianity. UK December 2020 • US December 2020 • 208 pages • 4 bw illus HB 9780567695857 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567695888 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9780567695864 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Dating Acts in its Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts
Karl Armstrong, McMaster University, Canada
Joshua Noble, Thomas Aquinas College, USA
Joshua Noble shows how Luke’s use of the motif of common property is significant for understanding his attitude toward the Roman Empire. Noble suggests that the motif, which has no biblical precedent, alludes to the Golden Age myth - a prominent myth in Greek and Roman traditions - which held that the earliest humans lived in utopian conditions whereby no-one possessed any private property but "all things were common". UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 208 pages HB 9780567695819 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567695840 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9780567695826 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Paul and Matthew Among Jews and Gentiles Essays in Honour of Terence L. Donaldson
Edited by Ronald Charles, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
Karl Armstrong addresses the long-established scholarly debate surrounding the date of Acts, taking a historiographical approach in his evaluation of primary and secondary sources. With the additional support of modern principles of textual criticism and linguistics, Armstrong suggests the historical context of Acts can be determined to be concurrent with a date of 62–63 CE. Armstrong also examines the much-neglected issue of Acts and its sources, claiming there is no clear evidence that Luke used Paul’s letters or the writings of Josephus. Armstrong's work offers a useful practical example of how a text such as Acts can be approached.
The essays in this volume are located at the intersections of three bodies of literature—Matthew, Paul and Second Temple Jewish Literature—and themes and questions that have been central to Donaldson’s work, including Christian Judaism and the Parting of the Ways; Gentiles in Judaism and early Christianity; Anti-Judaism in early Christianity. With contributions ranging from remapping Paul within Jewish ideologies, and Paul among friends and enemies, to socio-cultural readings of Matthew, and construction of Christian Identity through stereotypes of the Scribes and Pharisees, this book provides a multi-scholar tribute to Donaldson’s accomplishments around a core theme.
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 256 pages HB 9780567696465 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567696496 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9780567696472 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
UK January 2021 • US January 2021 • 208 pages • 1 bw illus HB 9780567694089 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567694119 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9780567694096 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
Paul’s Emotional Regime
Relating the Gospels
Ian Y. S. Jew, Chinese Annual Conference of the Methodist Church, Singapore
Eric Eve, University of Oxford, UK
The Social Function of Emotion in Philippians and 1 Thessalonians
This book is the first full-length treatment of emotion in the Pauline corpus. Jew’s exploration of the emotions in early Christianity represents extremely new terrain in New Testament studies and he combines rigorous social-scientific analysis and exegetical enquiry to argue that emotions are intrinsic to the formation of the Pauline communities. Jew shows that the emotions encode belief structures and influence patterns of social experience in social communities and his research demonstrates robust social-scientific analysis combined with careful exegetical investigation. UK October 2020 • US October 2020 • 240 pages HB 9780567694126 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567694157 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9780567694133 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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Common Property, the Golden Age, and Empire in Acts 2:42-47 and 4:32-35
Imitation, Memory, and the Farrer Hypothesis Eve presents a defence of the Farrer Hypothesis arguing that a flexible understanding of memory easily explains Luke's use of Matthean material out of sequence. Eve also introduces ancient literary imitation as a mode of source utilization into discussion of the synoptic problem, and draws insights from this to suggest that Luke's gospel is best seen as an emulation of Matthew. From this framework of an enlarged understanding of how ancient authors used their sources Eve concludes that the Farrer hypothesis is the most likely answer to the synoptic problem. UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 240 pages HB 9780567681102 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9780567681140 • £76.50 / $94.85 ePdf 9780567681119 • £76.50 / $94.85 Series: The Library of New Testament Studies • T&T Clark
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