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

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Professor Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)

Jewish Law in Gentile Churches

Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics

Professor Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford, UK)

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English

T.& T.Clark Ltd
01 December 2000

The Early Church; Christian theology; Judaism

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.

By: Professor Markus Bockmuehl (University of Oxford UK)
Imprint: T.& T.Clark Ltd
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 161mm, Spine: 31mm
Weight: 640g
ISBN: 9780567087348
ISBN 10: 0567087344
Pages: 336
Publication Date: 01 December 2000
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Part One: Christianity in the Land of Israel Halakhah and Ethics in the Jesus Tradition Matthew's Divorce Texts in the Light of Pre-Rabbinic Jewish Law 'Let the Dead Bury Their Dead': Jesus and the Law Revisited James the Just and Antioch Part Two: Jewish and Christian Ethics for Gentiles Natural Law in Second Temple Judaism Natural Law in the New Testament The Noachide Commandments and New Testament Ethics Part Three: The Development of Public Ethics The Beginning of Public Ethics Jewish and Christian Public Ethics in the Early Roman Empire

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).