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JOURNAL FOR THE STUDY OF THE NEW TESTAMENT SUPPLEMENT SERIES 241 Executive Editor Stanley E. Porter Editorial Board Craig Blomberg, Elizabeth A. Castelli, David Catchpole, Kathleen E. Corley, R. Alan Culpepper, James D.G. Dunn, Craig A. Evans, Stephen Fowl, Robert Fowler, George H. Guthrie, Robert Jewett, Robert W. Wall Sheffield Academic Press A Continuum imprint Christian Origins Worship, Belief and Society The Milltown Institute and the Irish Biblical Association Millennium Conference edited by Kieran J. O'Mahony Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement Series 241 Copyright © 2003 Sheffield Academic Press A Continuum imprint Published by Sheffield Academic Press Ltd The Tower Building, 11 York Road, London SE1 7NX 370 Lexington Avenue, New York NY 10017-6550 www.continuumbooks.com All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers. British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Typeset by Sheffield Academic Press EISBN 9780826462640 CONTENTS Preface vii Abbreviations viii List of Contributors xi MICHAEL MAHER Knowing the Tree by its Roots: Jewish Context of the Early Christian Movement 1 MARGARET BARKER The Temple Roots of the Christian Liturgy 29 LARRY W. HURTADO The Origin and Development of Christ-Devotion: Forces and Factors 52 THOMAS O'LOUGHLIN The Didache as a Source for Picturing the Earliest Christian Communities: The Case of the Practice of Fasting 83 JEROME MURPHY-O'CONNOR, OP The Origins of Paul's Christology: From Thessalonians to Galatians 113 SEAN FREYNE The Jesus-Paul Debate Revisited and Re-Imaging Christian Origins 143 CHRISTOPHER TUCKETT The Son of Man and Daniel 7: Inclusive Aspects of Early Christologies 164 vi Christian Origins KlERAN J. O'MAHONY, OSA Imagining a Roman Audience 191 JUSTIN TAYLOR, SM The Original Environment of Christianity 214 ELISABETH SCHUSSLER FIORENZA Re-Visioning Christian Origins: In Memory of Her Revisited 225 Index of References 251 Index of Authors 261 PREFACE It is a considerable pleasure to be able to offer these studies to a wider audience. They are the fruit of a scholarly colloquium hosted in Dublin by the Milltown Institute and the Irish Biblical Association, 5-8 November 2000. We felt that the turning of the millennium was an appropriate time to look back at the origins of the Christian movement and see something of where it had all come from. The scholars were invited to speak about their current research interest in the general area of early Christianity. As it turned out, a certain sequence is discernable. After an introductory paper laying out the Jewish background, the papers fall broadly into the catego- ries of worship, belief and social analysis. The idea of a conference first suggested itself some years before and a joint organizing committee was established: Sean Goan and Thomas O'Loughlin (the Irish Biblical Association) with Anthony O'Leary and Kieran J. O'Mahony (the Milltown Institute of Theology and Philosophy). The committee wishes to record the financial support received from the Pontifical Biblical Commission and hospitality of the Milltown Park Con- ference Centre. The conference itself was a resounding success not least because of the lively participation of the 250 people who attended. It is to them that this volume is dedicated and we hope thereby that the conversation may go on. On behalf of the Committee Kieran J. O'Mahony May 2003 ABBREVIATIONS AB Anchor Bible ABD David Noel Freedman (ed.), The Anchor Bible Dictionary (New York: Doubleday, 1992) ABRL Anchor Bible Reference Library AGJU Arbeiten zur Geschichte des antiken Judentums und des Urchristentums AmAnth American Anthropologist AnBib Analecta biblica ATR Anglican Theological Review BAGD Walter Bauer, William F. Arndt, F. William Gingrich and Frederick W. Danker, A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2nd edn, 1958) BBR Bulletin of Biblical Research BDF Friedrich Blass, A. Debrunner and Robert W. Funk, A Greek Grammar of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1961) BETL Bibliotheca ephemeridum theologicarum lovaniensium Bib Biblica Bij Bijdragen BJS Brown Judaic Studies BNTC Black's New Testament Commentaries BZNW BeiheftezurZAW CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly CNT Commentaire du Nouveau Testament CrCu Cross Currents Cone Concilium DJD Discoveries in the Judean Desert EBib Etudes bibliques EKKNT Evangelisch-Katholischer Kommentar zum Neuen Testament GKC Gesenius' Hebrew Grammar (ed. E. Kautzsch, revised and trans. A.E. Cowley; Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1910) HdO Handbuch der Orientalistik HNT Handbuch zum Neuen Testament HR History of Religions HTR Harvard Theological Review Abbreviations IX HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual ICC International Critical Commentary IDBSup IDB, Supplementary Volume IR Innes Review ITQ Irish Theological Quarterly JAAR Journal of the American Academy of Religion JB Jerusalem Bible JBL Journal of Biblical Literature JECS Journal of Early Christian Studies JHC Journal of Higher Criticism JJS Journal of Jewish Studies JR Journal of Religion JSJ Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic and Roman Period JSJSup Journal for the Study of Judaism, Supplement Series JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament JSNTSup Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Supplement Series JSSR Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion JTS Journal of Theological Studies LCL Loeb Classical Library LD Lectio divina LSJ H.G. Liddell, Robert Scott and H. Stuart Jones, Greek-English Lexicon (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 9th edn, 1968) MeyerK H.A.W. Meyer (ed.), Kritisch-exegetischer Kommentar iiber das Neue Testament [sometimes referred to as KEK] NAB New American Bible NB New Blackfriars NIBC New International Bible Commentary NICNT New International Commentary on the New Testament NIGTC The New International Greek Testament Commentary NJBC New Jerome Biblical Commentary NovTSup Novum Testamentum, Supplements NRSV New Revised Standard Version NTS New Testament Studies OTG Old Testament Guides OTP James Charlesworth (ed.), Old Testament Pseudepigrapha PEQ Palestine Exploration Quarterly RB Revue biblique RSV Revised Standard Version S ANT Studien zum Alten und Neuen Testament SBLASP SBL Abstracts and Seminar Papers SBLMS SBL Monograph Series SBLSCS SBL Septuagint and Cognate Studies SBLSP SBL Seminar Papers