Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of ReligionPaul and Palestinian Judaism compares Judaism, understood on its own terms, with Paul, understood on his own terms. Sanders aims to: Consider methodologically how to compare two (or more) related but different religions destroy the view of Rabinic Judaism which is still prevalent in much, perhaps most, New Testament scholarship establish a different view of Rabbinic Judaism argue a case concerning Palestinian Judaism as a whole argue for a certain understanding of Paul carry out a comparison of Paul and Palestinian JudaismThis volume makes a contribution not only to the understanding of Paul and his relationship to Judaism, but also to the study of Judaism itself. |
Contents
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Purpose of the study | 18 |
Difficulties of the comparison | 19 |
patterns and trajectories | 20 |
3 Sources | 24 |
PALESTINIAN JUDAISM | 31 |
TANNAITIC LITERATURE | 33 |
I Enoch 8390 | 351 |
I Enoch 91104 | 352 |
I Enoch 15 81 108 93110 911217 | 359 |
Summary | 361 |
3 Jubilees | 362 |
The commandments | 364 |
Reward and punishment | 366 |
The basis of salvation the true Israel | 367 |
2 The use of Rabbinic material1 | 59 |
Pharisees and Rabbis | 60 |
Date and authenticity | 63 |
The eclectic use of Tannaitic material | 69 |
3 The nature of Tannaitic literature | 76 |
Tannaitic literature and Tannaitic religion | 81 |
4 The election and the covenant | 84 |
The theme of gratuity | 85 |
The election and the explanations of it | 87 |
The enduring validity of the covenantal promises | 101 |
commandments and blessings | 104 |
5 Obedience and disobedience reward and punishment | 107 |
The burden of obedience | 110 |
Disobedience as sin and guilt | 111 |
Reward and punishment | 117 |
6 Reward and punishment and the world to come | 125 |
Weighing fulfilments and transgressions at the judgment | 128 |
7 Salvation by membership in the covenant and atonement | 147 |
The Sadducees | 150 |
The amme haarets | 152 |
Atonement | 157 |
Summary | 180 |
zakah and tsadaq | 183 |
Tsadaq | 198 |
9 The Gentiles | 206 |
10 The Nature of Religious Life and Experience | 212 |
Studying and doing and the presence of God | 217 |
Prayer and the time of death | 223 |
11 Conclusion | 233 |
THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 239 |
2 The covenant and the covenant people | 240 |
The members of the covenant and its enemies | 242 |
3 Election and predestination | 257 |
4 The commandments | 270 |
5 Fulfilment and transgression the nature of sin reward and punishment | 271 |
Destruction of the wicked | 272 |
Punishment for intracovenantal transgression | 284 |
Reward the requirement of perfection and mans nothingness | 287 |
6 Atonement | 298 |
7 The righteousness of God and the righteousness of man | 305 |
8 The religious life | 312 |
9 Conclusion | 316 |
The Authorship and Sitz im Leben of the Hodayot | 321 |
IQS 8192 | 323 |
IQS 83f | 326 |
The Nothingness of Man and Gattungsgeschichte | 327 |
APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA | 329 |
The fate of the individual Israelite reward and punishment | 333 |
Atonement | 338 |
Covenant commandments sin and atonement in Ben Sirach and Rabbinic literature | 341 |
The wicked and the righteous | 342 |
2 I Enoch | 346 |
The Book of Noah | 348 |
I Enoch 1236 | 350 |
The Gentiles | 374 |
Gods mercy mans repentance and atonement | 375 |
The righteous | 380 |
Jubilees and the Essenes | 383 |
The Integrity of Jubilees | 386 |
4 The Psalms of Solomon | 387 |
The pattern of religion in Ps Sol 9 | 388 |
The election | 389 |
The commandments chastisement reward and punishment | 390 |
Gods justice and mercy | 392 |
Repentance and atonement | 397 |
The identification of the righteous and the wicked | 398 |
The righteousness of God | 407 |
5 IV Ezra | 409 |
The dialogues | 413 |
The visions | 416 |
PALESTINIAN JUDAISM 200 bce200 ce | 419 |
covenantal nomism | 422 |
Apocalypticism and legalism | 423 |
Sects and parties | 425 |
Judaism in the time of Jesus and Paul | 426 |
Paul | 431 |
Method of proceeding | 433 |
The question of the centre and the beginning point | 434 |
2 The solution as preceding the problem | 442 |
3 Pauline soteriology | 447 |
One body one spirit | 453 |
Transfer terminology | 463 |
Salvation of mankind and the world | 472 |
4 The law the human plight and the relationship of the solutions to it | 474 |
The law righteousness by faith | 475 |
Mans plight | 497 |
Righteousness and participation | 502 |
The varying definitions of mans plight | 508 |
Plight and soteriology in Paul according to S Lyonnet | 511 |
6 Judgment by works and salvation by grace | 515 |
7 Coherence relevance and sources | 518 |
Perspectives on Gods righteousness in recent German discussion | 523 |
CONCLUSION | 543 |
Paul Hellenism and Hellenistic Judaism | 552 |
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND SYSTEM OF REFERENCES | 557 |
3 The Babylonian Talmud Talmud Babli | 558 |
6 Sifra Torat Kohanim | 559 |
7 Sifre Numbers Sifre Bemidbar | 560 |
11 Later Midrashim | 561 |
B DEAD SEA SCROLLS | 562 |
C APOCRYPHA AND PSEUDEPIGRAPHA | 563 |
D BIBLE | 564 |
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