Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public EthicsWhy 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. |
Contents
Matthews Divorce Texts in the Light of PreRabbinic | 17 |
Jesus and the | 23 |
James Israel and Antioch | 55 |
Natural Law in Second Temple Judaism | 103 |
Natural Law in the New Testament? | 113 |
49 | 135 |
The Noachide Commandments and New Testament | 145 |
The Old Testament | 149 |
From Luke | 177 |
The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Rabbinic Literature | 192 |
Conclusions | 222 |
Jewish and Christian Public Ethics in the Early Roman | 229 |
Bibliography | 241 |
List of First Publications | 281 |
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