Mapping the New Testament

Early Christian Writings as a Witness for Jewish Biblical Exegesis
Erscheinungsjahr 2007
ISBN: 978-90-04-15892-4
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 13, 258 Seiten, Format (B × H): 167 mm x 249 mm, Gewicht: 635 g

Reihe: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

This volume discusses links between the exegetical trends current in various Second Temple Jewish circles and patterns of New Testament conversation with Jewish Scripture. The standard focus on Jewish background of Christianity is complemented here by an alternative direction: the “mapping” of New Testament evidence as the early witness to more general trends attested in their fully developed form only later, in rabbinic literature. The question that dominates much of the discussion is: How can the New Testament be used for creating a fuller picture of Second Temple Jewish exegesis?
The book deals with a representative variety of samples from different layers of the New Testament tradition: Synoptic Gospels, Pauline Epistles and Acts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ruzer, Serge

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Heilige & Traditionstexte: Torah, Talmud, Mischna, Halacha
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Neues Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Über Autor(innen)

Serge Ruzer (1950) studied at Moscow State University and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem; obtained a Ph.D. from the latter in 1996 (Biblical Quotations in the Old Syriac Gospels: Peshitta Influence and Hermeneutical Constraints). He currently teaches in the Department of Comparative Religion of the Hebrew University and is a researcher at that University's Center for the Study of Christianity (the Jerusalem Companion to the New Testament from Jewish Sources project). His publications pertain to the Jewish background to the New Testament and to early Syriac literature. Recently he published a volume on The Sermon on the Mount and Its Jewish Setting (Paris, 2005; edited jointly with H.-J. Becker).