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Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts Studies in Theology and Religion (STAR) Edited on behalf of the Netherlands School for Advanced Studies in Theology and Religion (NOSTER) EditorinChief JanWillemvanHenten AssociateEditors HermanBeck,MeertenterBorg, KeesvanderKooi,DanielaMüller Assistant WinnifredJelier EditorialBoard RuardGanzevoort,MaaikedeHaardt,AbdeJong, Anne-MarieKorte,ArieMolendijk,PeterNissen, HermanNoordegraaf,WimWeren VOLUME17 Thetitlespublishedinthisseriesarelistedatbrill.com/star Early Christian Ethics in Interaction with Jewish and Greco-Roman Contexts Editedby JanWillemvanHenten JosephVerheyden LEIDEN•BOSTON 2013 LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData EarlyChristianethicsininteractionwithJewishandGreco-Romancontexts/editedbyJanWillem vanHenten,JosephVerheyden. p.cm.–(Studiesintheologyandreligion(STAR),ISSN1566-208X;v.17) Includesbibliographicalreferences(p. )andindexes. ISBN978-90-04-23700-1(hardback):alk.paper)–ISBN978-90-04-24215-9(e-book) 1.Christianethics–History–Earlychurch,ca.30-600.2.Judaism–History–Post-exilicperiod,586 B.C.-210A.D.3.Greece–Religion.4.Rome–Religion.5.Bible.N.T.–Criticism,interpretation,etc.6. Ethics.I.Henten,J.W.van.II.Verheyden,Jozef. BJ1212.E272013 241.09'015–dc23 2012037571 Thispublicationhasbeentypesetinthemultilingual“Brill”typeface.Withover5,100characters coveringLatin,IPA,Greek,andCyrillic,thistypefaceisespeciallysuitableforuseinthehumanities. Formoreinformation,pleaseseewww.brill.com/brill-typeface. ISSN1566-208X ISBN978-90-04-23700-1(hardback) ISBN978-90-04-24215-9(e-book) Copyright2013byKoninklijkeBrillNV,Leiden,TheNetherlands. KoninklijkeBrillNVincorporatestheimprintsBrill,GlobalOriental,HoteiPublishing, IDCPublishersandMartinusNijhoffPublishers. 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CONTENTS ListofContributors..................................................... vii Preface.................................................................. ix Introduction............................................................ 1 JanWillemvanHentenandJosephVerheyden EarlyChristianityinItsHellenisticContext:ACriticalSurveyof20th CenturyResearch................................................... 17 ReinhardFeldmeier EarlyChristianityinItsJewishContext:ABriefLookat20thCentury Research............................................................ 31 GerbernS.Oegema FindingaBasisforInterpretingNewTestamentEthosfroma Greco-RomanPhilosophicalPerspective........................... 53 AndersKlostergaardPetersen SomeIssuesbehindtheEthicsintheQumranScrollsandTheir ImplicationsforNewTestamentEthics ............................ 83 GeorgeJ.Brooke TheRelevanceofJewishInscriptionsforNewTestamentEthics ....... 107 AndrewChester TheImportanceofHellenisticJudaismfortheStudyofPaul’sEthics .. 147 ThomasH.Tobin “Ethical”Traditions,FamilyEthos,andLoveintheJohannine Literature........................................................... 167 JörgFrey GoodasaMoralCategoryintheEarlyJesusTradition.................. 205 HermutLöhr EthicsandAnthropologyintheLetterofJames:AnOutline ........... 223 Karl-WilhelmNiebuhr EssentialsofEthicsinMatthewandtheDidache:AComparisonata ConceptualandPracticalLevel..................................... 243 HuubvandeSandt vi contents Bibliography ............................................................ 263 IndexofPassages ....................................................... 291 SubjectIndex ........................................................... 303 LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS GeorgeJ.Brooke,UniversityofManchester AndrewChester,UniversityofCambridge ReinhardFeldmeier,UniversityofGöttingen JörgFrey,UniversityofZurich JanWillemvanHenten,UniversityofAmsterdam,UniversityofStellenbosch AndersKlostergaardPetersen,AarhusUniversity HermutLöhr,UniversityofMünster Karl-WilhelmNiebuhr,FriedrichSchillerUniversityJena GerbernS.Oegema,McGillUniversity HuubvandeSandt,TilburgUniversity ThomasH.Tobin,LoyolaUniversityChicago JosephVerheyden,CatholicUniversityofLeuven PREFACE The present volume is the outcome of three scholarly meetings focusing uponEarlyChristianityinitsJewishandHellenisticContexts,whichwere partofalargeinternationalandinterdisciplinaryresearchprojectonOrtho- doxyandAdaptationasConflictingReligiousIdentities,conductedbythe NetherlandsSchoolforAdvancedStudiesinTheologyandReligion(NOS- TER) and the Theological Faculty of the Catholic University of Leuven. These meetings were organised by Maarten Menken (School of Catholic Theology, Tilburg University), Joseph Verheyden (Catholic University of Leuven),andJanWillemvanHenten(UniversityofAmsterdam,University ofStellenbosch).Aconferencewasdevotedtothethemeoftheinterconnec- tionsbetweentheNewTestamentandRabbinicpassages,andtherelevance of Rabbinic literature for the interpretation of early Christian passages. Asecondmeetingfocusedonmethodologicalissuesandwhattwentieth- centuryscholarshiponthecontextsofEarlyChristianityhasyielded.During a third meeting we concentrated on the issue of early Christian Ethics in interaction with Jewish and Hellenistic Contexts. The essays in this book resultfromthesecondandthirdmeeting.Wewarmlythanktheboardsof theNetherlandsSchoolforAdvancedStudiesinTheologyandReligionand theCatholicUniversityofLeuvenaswellastheNetherlandsOrganisation for Scientific Research (NWO) for supporting our meetings, and NOSTER alsoforacceptingthisvolumeforpublicationinitsSTARseries.Weextend ourgratitudetoWinnifredJelier,theeditorialassistantfortheSTARseries, forhermeticulouspreparationofthemanuscript. JanWillemvanHentenandJosephVerheyden May2012
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