Jewish law in gentile churches : Halakhah and the beginning of Christian public ethics
"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? Did Christianity inherit its norms of moral reasoning, or invent them afresh?" "In this new work, 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 research. 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."--Jacket
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xvi, 314 pages ; 24 cm
9780567087348, 0567087344
45304172
Part One: Christianity in the Land of IsraelHalakhah and Ethics in the Jesus TraditionMatthew's Divorce Texts in the Light of Pre-Rabbinic Jewish Law'Let the Dead Bury Their Dead': Jesus and the Law RevisitedJames the Just and AntiochPart Two: Jewish and Christian Ethics for GentilesNatural Law in Second Temple JudaismNatural Law in the New TestamentThe Noachide Commandments and New Testament EthicsPart Three: The Development of Public EthicsThe Beginning of Public EthicsJewish and Christian Public Ethics in the Early Roman Empire