EUR  â¬290.40EUR  â¬242.00 excl. VAT
The Covenant in Judaism and Paul
A Study of Ritual Boundaries as Identity Markers
Series:
Author:
The Covenant in Judaism and Paul deals with biblical and intertestamental uses of covenant and related rituals, challenging the view that baptism replaces circumcision, since baptism is entry into the new covenant, and showing that ritual boundaries are replaced or redefined since identity has changed.
The investigation uses social categories, âidentityâ as a term that offers an explanation for a group's selfunderstanding and âboundaryâ as a term for entry rite of affirmation marker.
Part A looks at the Old Testament background to aspects of the covenant. Part B examines covenant identity and rituals in Palestinian Judaism as featured in Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, the Damascus Document, and the Community Rule. It includes a brief analysis of the baptism administered by John the Baptist. Part C analyses Paul's views on covenant, circumcision, and baptism against this background.
The investigation uses social categories, âidentityâ as a term that offers an explanation for a group's selfunderstanding and âboundaryâ as a term for entry rite of affirmation marker.
Part A looks at the Old Testament background to aspects of the covenant. Part B examines covenant identity and rituals in Palestinian Judaism as featured in Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, the Damascus Document, and the Community Rule. It includes a brief analysis of the baptism administered by John the Baptist. Part C analyses Paul's views on covenant, circumcision, and baptism against this background.
Ellen Juhl Christiansen, Ph.D. (1994) in Theology, University of Durham, England, is Lecturer in New Testament, at the University of Aarhus, Denmark.
All interested in the theology of Paul, in Jubilees and Dead Sea Scrolls as background to New Testament studies, especially the development of covenant identity, and circumcision and baptism as boundary rituals.