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A fresh look at Acts of the Apostles and its depiction of Jewish identity within the larger Roman era When considering Jewish identity in Acts of the Apostles, scholars have often emphasized Jewish and Christian religious difference, an emphasis that masks the intersections of civic, ethnic, and religious identifications in antiquity. Christopher Stroup’s innovative work explores the depiction of Jewish and Christian identity by analyzing ethnicity within a broader material and epigraphic context. Examining Acts through a new lens, he shows that the text presents Jews and Jewish identity in multiple, complex ways, in order to legitimate the Jewishness of Christians.

Jews in the New Testament. --- Church history --- Jews --- Identity --- Biblical teaching. --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Römisches Reich

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The articles discuss various aspects of Jewish identity in the Greco-Roman period. Was there a common ‘Jewish’ identity, and how could it be defined? How could different groups develop and maintain their identity within the challenge of Hellenistic and early Roman culture? What about the images of ‘others’? How could some of those ‘others’ adopt a Jewish lifestyle or identity, whereas others, abandoned their inherited identity? Among the questions discussed are the translation of Ioudaios, Jewish and universal identity in Philo, the status of women and their conversion to Judaism, the participation of non-Jews in the temple cult, the practice of Emperor worship in Judaea, and the image of Egypt and the Nile as ‘others’ in Philo. Two articles enter the debate whether Jewish identity had an ongoing influence within early Christianity, in Paul and in the rules known as the Apostolic Decree.

Jews --- Jews in the New Testament. --- Judaism --- Judaism (Christian theology) --- Juifs --- Juifs dans le Nouveau Testament --- Judaïsme --- Judaïsme (Théologie chrétienne) --- Identity. --- History --- History of doctrines --- Identité --- Histoire --- Histoire des doctrines --- 933.51 --- Identity, Jewish --- Jewish identity --- Jewishness --- Jewish nationalism --- Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Romeinse tijd II--(70-325) --- Jews -- History -- 168 B.C.-135 A.D. --- Jews -- Identity. --- Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425. --- Judaism (Christian theology) -- History of doctrines -- Early church, ca. 30-600. --- Jews in the New Testament --- 933.51 Geschiedenis van het Joodse volk: Romeinse tijd II--(70-325) --- Jewish law --- Identity --- Ethnic identity --- Race identity --- Legal status, laws, etc.

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Much scholarship has focused on Paul's insistence on Gentile membership of the people of God equally with Jews. Dr Yee's study of Ephesians 2 reveals how the distinctively Jewish world view of the author of Ephesians underlies this key text. He explores how the Ephesians' author provides a resolution to one of the thorniest issues regarding two ethnic groups in the earliest period of Christianity: can Jew and Gentile, the two estranged human groups, be one (people of God) and if so, how? Setting Ephesians 2 as fully as possible into its historical context, he describes some of the relevant Jewish features and demonstrates them, revealing many explosive but hidden issues. This book provides an important contribution to the continuing reassessment of Christian and Jewish self-understanding in regard to each other during the critical period of the latter decades of the first century CE.

Gentiles in the New Testament --- Gentils dans le Nouveau Testament --- Heidenen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Jews in the New Testament --- Joden in het Nieuwe Testament --- Juifs dans le Nouveau Testament --- Jews in the New Testament. --- Gentiles in the New Testament. --- 227.1*4 --- Brief van Paulus aan de Efesiërs --- 225*1 --- 225.09 --- Leven van Jezus Christus in het Nieuwe Testament. Historische Jezus Christus --- Parafrasen op het Nieuwe Testament. Bewerkingen van het Nieuwe Testament --- 227.1*4 Brief van Paulus aan de Efesiërs --- 225.09 Parafrasen op het Nieuwe Testament. Bewerkingen van het Nieuwe Testament --- 225*1 Leven van Jezus Christus in het Nieuwe Testament. Historische Jezus Christus --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. N.T. Ephesians II --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion

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The Letter to the Romans explains the way Paul thought Jewish covenantal identity continued now that the messianic era had begun. More particularly, Paul addresses the relevance of Abraham for Jews and gentiles, the role of Torah, and the way it is contextualized in Christ. All too often, however, these topics are read in supersessionist ways. This book argues that such readings are unpersuasive. It offers instead a post-supersessionist perspective in which Jewish covenantal identity continues in Paul's gospel. Paul is no destroyer of worlds. The aim of this book is to offer a different view of the key interpretive points that lead to supersessionist understandings of Paul's most important letter. It draws on the findings of those aligned with the Paul within Judaism paradigm and accents those findings with a light touch from social identity theory. When combined, these resources help the reader to hear Romans afresh, in a way that allows both Jewish and non-Jewish existing identities continued relevance.

Jews in the New Testament. --- Gentiles in the New Testament. --- Jews --- Chosen people (Jews) --- Election of Israel --- Israel, Election of --- Election (Theology) --- Judaism --- People of God --- Election, Doctrine of. --- Chosen people --- Doctrine of election --- Mission --- Relations --- Bible. --- Epître aux Romains (Book of the New Testament) --- List do Rzymian (Book of the New Testament) --- Roma-sŏ --- Római levél --- Romans (Book of the New Testament) --- Romasŏ --- Criticism, interpretation, etc.

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Wesley Olmstead examines the parables of the Two Sons, the Tenants and the Wedding Feast against the backdrop of the wider Matthean narrative. He explores Matthew's characterization of the Jewish leaders, the people and the nations, and assesses the respective roles of Israel and the nations in the plot of Matthew's Gospel. Against the current of contemporary Matthean scholarship, Olmstead argues both that the judgement this trilogy announces falls upon Israel (and not only her leaders) and that these parables point to the future inclusion of the nations in the nation that God had promised to raise up from Abraham. Bringing both literary-critical and redaction-critical tools to bear on the texts at hand, Olmstead not only elucidates the intended meanings of this parabolic trilogy but also attempts to determine the responses they elicited from their first readers. Transcending Matthean scholarship, this book has implications for all Gospel studies.

Two sons (Parable) --- Wicked husbandmen (Parable) --- Great supper (Parable) --- Jews in the New Testament --- Bible --- Criticism, interpretation, etc --- Bruiloftsmaal (Parabel) --- Feast [Parable of ] --- Festin des noces (Parabole) --- Gentiles in the New Testament --- Gentils dans le Nouveau Testament --- Great Feast (Parable) --- Guest who made excuses (Parable) --- Heidenen in het Nieuwe Testament --- Invités discourtois [Parabole des ] --- Joden in het Nieuwe Testament --- Juifs dans le Nouveau Testament --- King's son [Marriage of ] (Parable) --- Marriage of the king's son (Parable) --- Noces [Festin des ] (Parabole) --- Onwillige genodigden (Parabel) --- Supper [Parable of ] --- Unwilling guests (Parable) --- Wedding feast (Parable) --- Wedding garment (Parable) --- Bible NT. Gospels. Matthew --- 225*33 --- 226.2 --- 225*33 Parabels. Gelijkenissen --- Parabels. Gelijkenissen --- Husbandmen, Wicked (Parable) --- Wicked tenants (Parable) --- Wicked vinedressers (Parable) --- Feast, Parable of --- Great feast (Parable) --- Guests who made excuses (Parable) --- King's son, Marriage of (Parable) --- Supper, Parable of --- Evangelie volgens Matteüs --- Bible. --- Criticism, interpretation, etc. --- Bible. N.T. Matthew XXI,28-XXII,14 --- Arts and Humanities --- Religion --- Gentiles in the New Testament. --- Jews in the New Testament.