Review: Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins: Diversity, Continuity and Transformation

2006 ◽  
Vol 51 (1) ◽  
pp. 200-204
Author(s):  
C. Fletcher-Louis
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Judaism ◽  
Christian Origins

Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins: Diversity, Continuity, and Transformation

2005 ◽  
Vol 124 (1) ◽  
pp. 176
Author(s):  
Pieter W. van der Horst ◽  
George W. E. Nickelsburg
Keyword(s):  
Ancient Judaism ◽  
Christian Origins

The Twelve and the Phylarchs

1986 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 503-527 ◽  
Author(s):  
W. Horbury
Keyword(s):  
Subject Matter ◽  
First Century ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Subsequent Growth ◽  
Ancient Judaism ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Christian Origins

Constitutional questions are posed in much recent study of Christian origins. What was the significance of the ministry of Jesus for the contemporary Jewish polity, and the subsequent growth of the Christian ecclesia? The differing emphases of the answers can be roughly labelled ecclesiastical, for example in B. F. Meyer, or national, for example in G. B. Caird and E. P. Sanders. Despite such differences, the twelve must needs be central in the subject-matter (as in B. F. Meyer, 134; Sanders, 326). Can one go further towards determining the constitutional significance of a body of twelve for a Jew of the first century A.D.?One possible model for the twelve, the group of tribal princes, seems to be relatively neglected. In what follows attention will be drawn to it, and an attempt will be made to characterize its interpretation in ancient Judaism. Finally, against this background, brief comment will be offered on the place of the twelve in early church order and in the ministry of Jesus.

scholarly journals Prophecy and the prophetic as aspects of Paul’s theology

2018 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Albert Hogeterp
Keyword(s):  
Dead Sea Scrolls ◽  
Second Temple ◽  
Dead Sea ◽  
The Other ◽  
1 Corinthians ◽  
Ancient Judaism ◽  
Early Judaism ◽  
Christian Origins ◽  
Paul's Letters ◽  
The One

As the earliest documents of Christianity, Paul’s Letters include extensive evidence on prophecy and the prophetic, most particularly in 1 Corinthians 12–14. In view of the influential hypothesis on “the cessation of prophecy” in Ancient Judaism on the one hand and early Jewish and Christian versatility on prophecy on the other, this essay addresses the question what prophecy meant in Paul’s days and how it may be situated as a spiritual gift in Paul’s theology. It reconsiders the cessation hypothesis vis-à-vis Early Judaism, providing caveats on its application to the Dead Sea Scrolls and Flavius Josephus, thereby redressing the Second Temple Jewish context of Christian origins in this respect. The essay provides a contextual reading of key passages (1 Cor 12:4–11, 13:8–13, 14:1–5, 14:20–33a), offering new insights about communal parameters of prophecy by comparing Paul’s ideas with contexts of Judaism, Jewish Hellenism and the Corinthians’ Greek environment.

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