Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings: The Use of the Old Testament in the New
Digital Verbum Edition
How did New Testament authors use Israel’s Scriptures?
Use, misuse, appropriation, citation, allusion, inspiration—how do we characterize the manifold images, paraphrase, and quotation of the Jewish Scriptures that pervade the New Testament? Over the past few decades, scholars have tackled the question with a variety of methodologies. New Testament authors were part of a broader landscape of Jewish interpreters playing with Scripture. Recent studies have sought to understand the various compositional techniques of the early Christians who composed the New Testament in this context and on the authors’ own terms.
In this landmark collection of essays, Matthias Henze and David Lincicum marshal an international group of renowned scholars to analyze the New Testament, text-by-text, aiming to better understand what roles Israel’s Scriptures play therein. In addition to explicating each book, the essayists also cut across texts to chart the most important central concepts, such as the messiah, covenants, and the end times. Carefully constructed reception history of both testaments rounds out the volume.
Comprehensive and foundational, Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Writings will serve as an essential resource for biblical scholars for years to come.
- Examines the manifold images, paraphrase, and quotation of the Jewish Scriptures that pervade the New Testament
- Explores the most important central concepts
- Features an international group of renowned scholars
- Introduction, by Matthias Henze and David Lincicum
- 1. What Were the “Scriptures” in the Time of Jesus?, by Edmon L. Gallagher
- 2. Israel’s Scriptures in the Hebrew Bible, by Marc Zvi Brettler
- 3. Israel’s Greek Scriptures and Their Collection in the Septuagint, by Martin Karrer
- 4. Israel’s Scriptures in Early Jewish Literature, by Grant Macaskill
- 5. Israel’s Scriptures in the Dead Sea Scrolls, by Susan Docherty
- 6. Israel’s Scriptures in Philo and the Jewish Alexandrian Tradition, by Michael Benjamin Cover
- 7. Israel’s Scriptures in Josephus, by Michael Avioz
- 8. Israel’s Scriptures in Matthew, by Matthias Konradt
- 9. Israel’s Scriptures in Mark, by Elizabeth Shively
- 10. Israel’s Scriptures in Luke, by Martin Bauspieß
- 11. Israel’s Scriptures in John, by Jaime Clark-Soles
- 12. Israel’s Scriptures in Acts, by Dietrich Rusam B. The Apostle Paul
- 13. Israel’s Scriptures in Romans, by Jens Schröter
- 14. Israel’s Scriptures in 1 and 2 Corinthians, by Katja Kujanpää
- 15. Israel’s Scriptures in Galatians, by A. Andrew Das
- 16. Israel’s Scriptures in Ephesians and Colossians, by Paul Foster
- 17. Israel’s Scriptures in Philippians and Philemon, by Angela Standhartinger
- 18. Israel’s Scriptures in 1 and 2 Thessalonians, by Todd Still
- 19. Israel’s Scriptures in the Pastoral Epistles, by Gerd Häfner C. Hebrews and the Catholic Letters
- 20. Israel’s Scriptures in Hebrews, by Gabriella Gelardini
- 21. Israel’s Scriptures in James, by Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr
- 22. Israel’s Scriptures in 1 Peter, Jude, by Jörg Frey
- 23. Israel’s Scriptures in the Johannine Letters, by George Parsenios D. The Book of Revelation
- 24. Israel’s Scriptures in the Revelation of John, by Ian Boxall
- 25. God, by Archie T. Wright
- 26. Messiah, by J. Thomas Hewitt
- 27. Holy Spirit, by John R. Levison
- 28. Covenant, by Richard Bautch
- 29. Law, by Claudia Setzer
- 30. Wisdom, by Ben Wold
- 31. Liturgy and Prayer, by Rodney Werline
- 32. Eschatology, by Garrick V. Allen
- 33. Deuteronomy in the New Testament, by Gert Steyn
- 34. Isaiah in the New Testament, by Benjamin Reynolds
- 35. The Psalms in the New Testament, by Matthias Henze
- 36. Daniel in the New Testament, by Alexandria Frisch and Jennie Grillo
- 37. Figures of Ancient Israel in the New Testament, by Valérie Nicolet
- 38. Israel’s Scriptures in the Apocryphal Gospels, by Tobias Nicklas
- 39. Israel’s Scriptures in the Apocryphal Apocalypses, by Michael Sommer
- 40. Israel’s Scriptures in the Adversus Iudaeos Literature, by David Lincicum
- 41. Israel’s Scriptures in Marcion and the Critical Tradition, by Dieter Roth
- 42. Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christian Pictorial Art, by Robin M. Jensen
I. Contexts
II. Israel’s Scriptures in the New Testament
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A. The Gospels and Acts
III. Themes and Topics from Israel’s Scriptures in the New Testament
IV. Tracing Israel’s Scriptures
V. Israel’s Scriptures in Early Christianity Outside the New Testament
- Garrick V. Allen
- Michael Avioz
- Martin Bauspieß
- Richard Bautch
- Ian K. Boxall
- Marc Zvi Brettler
- Jaime Clark-Soles
- Michael Benjamin Cover
- A. Andrew Das
- Susan Docherty
- Paul Foster
- Jörg Frey
- Alexandria Frisch
- Edmon L. Gallagher
- Gabriella Gelardini
- Jennie Grillo
- Gerd Häfner
- Matthias Henze
- J. Thomas Hewitt
- Robin M. Jensen
- Martin Karrer
- Matthias Konradt
- Katja Kujanpää
- John R. Levison
- David Lincicum
- Grant Macaskill
- Tobias Nicklas
- Valérie Nicolet
- Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr
- George Parsenios
- Benjamin Reynolds
- Dieter T. Roth
- Dietrich Rusam
- Jens Schröter
- Claudia Setzer
- Elizabeth Shively
- Michael Karl-Heinz Sommer
- Janet Elizabeth Spittler
- Angela Standhartinger
- Gert Steyn
- Todd D. Still
- Rodney Werline
- Benjamin Wold
- Archie T. Wright
