Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics by Bockmuehl, Markus

Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780567706799)

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Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics by Bockmuehl, Markus

Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics

$40.95
Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics by Bockmuehl, Markus

Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics

$40.95
Format: Paperback
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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?In this important study, 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 study. 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.

Author: Markus Bockmuehl
ISBN-10: 0567706796
ISBN-13: 9780567706799
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Language: English
Published: 01/27/2022
Pages: 336
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.03lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.70d
By Markus Bockmuehl
By Markus Bockmuehl
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Markus Bockmuehl teaches biblical and early Christian studies in the University of Oxford, UK, where he is Dean Ireland's Professor and a Fellow of Keble College. His approach stresses the symbioses of history with theology, of Christianity alongside Judaism, and of exegesis in and as reception especially of the first three Christian centuries. Among his authored books are Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study (2006), Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory (2012), and Ancient Apocryphal Gospels (2017). Recent publications also include Creation ex Nihilo (2018, ed. with Gary A. Anderson), Austin Farrer (2020, ed. with Stephen Platten), and the English translation of Wolfram Kinzig's Christian Persecution in Antiquity (2021).

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