'What Does the Scripture Say?' Studies in the Function of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity, Volume 1 Volume 1: The Synoptic Gospels

by Evans, Craig A.; Zacharias, H. Daniel

• ISBN13: 9780567200815
• ISBN10: 0567200817
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2014-01-09
• Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark

Summary

These essays explore new methods and overlooked traditions
that appear to shed light on how the founders of the Christian movement
understood the older sacred tradition and sought new and creative ways to let
it speak to their own times.

Gurtner discusses the Matthean version of the temptation narrative. Chandler
investigates the exhortation to 'love your neighbour as yourself' from Lev.
19.18b. Talbot re-examines Jesus' offer of rest in Mt. 11.28-30. Myers explores
the ways Matthew's appeal to Isa. 42.1-4 in Mt. 12.17-21 affects the
characterization of Jesus in his Gospel. Hamilton explores 1 Enoch 6-11 as a
retelling of Genesis 3-6. Herzer seeks to explain varuiys aspects of Mt.
27.51b-53. McWhirter explores the citation of Exod 23.20, Mal. 3.1, and Isa. 40.3
in Mk 1.2-3. Hopkins investigates the manner in which Jesus engages questions
and persons regarding purity and impurity. Miller notes that victory songs are
a generally acknowledges category of Hebrew poetry. Gregerman argues that
studies of early Christian proselytism to Gentiles are largely focussed on
missionary methods of converts.

Author Biography

Craig A. Evans (Ph.D., Claremont) is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Acadia Divinity College Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

H. Daniel Zacharias is a Lecturer at Acadia Divinity College, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Table of Contents

List of Abbreviations\List of
Contributors\Craig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias Introduction\Chapter
1: Daniel M. Gurtner "‘Fasting' and
‘Forty Nights': The Matthean Temptation Narrative (4.1-11) and Moses Typology"\Chapter
2: Christopher N. Chandler "‘Love
your neighbor as yourself' (Lev. 19.18b) in Early Jewish-Christian Exegetical
Practice and Missional Formulation"\Chapter 3: Elizabeth Talbot "Rest, Eschatology, and Sabbath in Matthew
11.28-30"\Chapter 4: Alicia Myers
"Jesus as Ideal King: Isaiah 42 and the Characterization of Jesus in Matthew
12.17-21"\Chapter 5: Catherine Sider
Hamilton "Blood and Secrets: The Re-telling of Genesis 1-6 in 1 Enoch
6-11 and its Echoes in Susanna and the Gospel of Matthew"\Chapter 6: Jens Herzer "The Riddle of the Holy Ones
in Matthew 27.51b-53: A New Proposal for a crux
interpretum"\Chapter 7: Jocelyn
McWhirter "Messianic Exegesis in Mark 1.2-3"\Chapter 8: Jamal-Dominique Hopkins "Levitical
Purification in the New Testament Gospels"\Chapter 9: Amanda Miller "A Different Kind of Victory: 4Q427 7 I-II and the
Magnificat as Later Developments of the Hebrew Victory Song"\Chapter 10: Adam Gregerman "Biblical Prophecy and the Fate of the Nations in Early Jewish and
Christian Interpretations of Isaiah"\Name Index\Subject Index