Hellenistic Jewish Literature and the New Testament: Collected Essays

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Like Philo and Josephus, as well as those who earlier produced the Septuagint and the Hellenistic Jewish fragmentary texts, the writers of the New Testament were Jews writing in Greek. They may have been articulating and promoting a particular form of Jewish messianism that eventually became a distinctive form of religious belief, but in the first and early second centuries, those Christ-followers who were writing in various genres operated with many of the same assumptions as their Jewish counterparts in the land of Israel and in other places such as Alexandria and Rome. This collection of essays, spanning the scholarly career of Carl R. Holladay, investigates the Hellenistic Jewish writings in their own contexts and explores how they illuminate the writings of the New Testament. Included are six new essays on such topics as Hellenistic Judaism, the Beatitudes, and Luke-Acts. Cover Title Table of Contents Editors’ Foreword Author’s Preface List of Abbreviations I. Hellenistic Judaism 1. The Portrait of Moses in Ezekiel the Tragedian 2. Demetrius the Chronographer as Historian and Apologist 3. Preparing a Critical Edition: An Appraisal of H. W. Attridge and R. A. Oden, Philo of Byblos 4. Jewish Responses to Hellenistic Culture in Early Ptolemaic Egypt 5. The Textual Tradition of Pseudo-Orpheus: Walter or Riedweg? 6. Pseudo-Orpheus: Tracking a Tradition 7. Acts and the Fragments of Hellenistic Jewish Historians 8. Hellenism in the Fragmentary Hellenistic Jewish Authors: Resonance and Resistance 9. Paul and His Predecessors in the Diaspora: Some Reflections on Ethnic Identity in the Fragmentary Hellenistic Jewish Authors 10. Acts and the Fragmentary Hellenistic Jewish Authors 11. Spirit in Philo of Alexandria 12. Hellenism, Hellenistic Judaism, and Christian Origins: Pfleiderer and Harnack II. New Testament 13. New Testament Christology: Some Considerations of Method 14. 1 Corinthians 13: Paul as Apostolic Paradigm 15. Luke’s Use of the LXX in Acts: A Review of the Debate and a Look at Acts 1:15–26 16. The Beatitudes: Jesus’s Recipe for Happiness? 17. The Beatitudes: Happiness and the Kingdom of God 18. Happiness Pursued: What the Beatitudes Have Meant 19. Schweitzer’s Jesus: Crushed on the Wheel of the World? 20. Jesus and His Followers in Galilee: Albert Schweitzer’s Reconstruction 21. Baptism in the New Testament and Its Cultural Milieu: A Response to Everett Ferguson, Baptism in the Early Church 22. The Church of the Spirit, the Spirit of the Church: A Lukan Perspective; Part 1: The Church of the Spirit 23. The Church of the Spirit, the Spirit of the Church: A Lukan Perspective; Part 2: The Spirit of the Church 24. Acts as Gospel: The Familiar and the Foreign; Part 1: Pisidian Antioch and Athens 25. Acts as Gospel: The Familiar and the Foreign; Part 2: Paul’s Synagogue Sermon and the Areopagus Speech List of Original Publications Index of Ancient Sources Index of Modern Authors Index of Subjects