This study addresses Pavi's use of Scripture in explicit and implicit forms within I cor. 1:18-3:23 in light of his Jewish, prophetic, and apostolic identity. It draws conclusions concerning Paul's us
This study shows that angel traditions from the Hebrew Bible and Jewish literature had a significant impact on the origins and early development of Christology to the point that an Angelomorphic Chris
Several Second Temple era sources refer to Nazirites as people who have made a special vow to abstain from certain behaviors such as drinking wine, cutting their hair, or having contact with a corpse,
This volume consists of twenty-three essays that have appeared in nineteen different journals and other publications during a period of over forty years, together with an introduction. The essays deal
The Proclamation of Jesus seeks to place Jesus in the context of first-century Palestinian Judaism. The essence of his preaching, the kingdom of God, and the place of purity in his teaching and activi
This study of the local colour in the texts of Acts 13 and 14 and on the problem of the addressees of the letter to the Galatians introduces the newest findings in historical research of the province
Most of the contributors are Dutch scholars of religion, but some come from elsewhere in Europe and from the US, and some are historians, political scientists, and scholars of literature. Luttikhuizen
This book is a comparative study in the hermeneutics of the ancient interpretations of the biblical Joseph story. Assuming that every interpretation results from a creative encounter between the ultim
Contributing to the study of the Old Testament in the New, Robert Rowe explores the relationship between te kingdom of God and Messianic kingship in Mark's gospel, starting from 'two-tier' kingship in
This volume analyzes the understanding of dreams and tbe corresponding literary forms used by Josephus in his writings. Josephus reports dreams as either auditory message dreams, symbolic visual dream
Jewish Identity in Early Rabbinic Writings is more than a question of legal status: it is the experience of being Jewish or of 'Jewishness' in all its social and cultural dimensions. This work describ
Difficult problems about early Jewish and Christian calendar and chronology are discussed here, with special attention to intertestamental evidence (Qumran and other). This evidence is both examined i
