Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism

Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President and Dean, and Professor of New Testament, at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He has published numerous monographs, edited volumes, and articles in the field of New Testament studies and related disciplines, including Hermeneutics: An Introduction to Interpretive Theory (2011).Andrew W. Pitts is a Ph.D. candidate in Christian Theology at McMaster Divinity College in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and has published articles in journals such as JBL, JGRChJ and CBR, as well as a number of chapters in edited volumes.

"... readers are given a master-class in the use of texts from Greco-Roman and Hellenistic Jewish sources to enrich the understanding of the emergence of Christianity." - Paul Foster, School of Divinity, University of Edinburgh, in: Expository Times 126/6 (March 2015)

• 1. Hellenistic Judaism and New Testament Interpretation: An Introductory EssayStanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts2. Hellenism and Biblical Canons: Is There a Connection?Lee Martin McDonald 3. Glorifying the Present through the Past: Herod the Great and His Jewish Royal PredecessorsAdam Kolman Marshak 4. Beyond Covenant Nomism: Revisiting Palestinian Judaism in Light of Pseudo-Philo’s Biblical AntiquitiesPreston M. Sprinkle5. Resurrection and Immortality in Hellenistic Judaism: Navigating the Conceptual Boundaries C.D. Elledge6. The Spirit in Second Temple Jewish Monotheism and the Origins of Early Christology Andrew W. Pitts and Seth Pollinger 7. The Ethnic Context of Paul’s LettersChristopher D. Stanley8. “Is Saul of Tarsus also among the Prophets?” Paul’s Calling as Prophetic Divine CommissioningTony Costa9. Monotheism and Philosophy: Notes on the Concept of God in Philo and Paul (Romans 1:18-21)Peter Frick10. Paul Beyond the Judaism/Hellenism Divide? The Case of Pauline Anthropology in Romans 7 and 2 Corinthians 4-5Emma Wasserman11. Was John the Baptist a Member of the Qumran Community? Once MoreStanley E. Porter12. The Temple Attitudes of John and Qumran in the Light of Hellenistic JudaismWally V. Cirafesi13. Rhetoric and the Art of Persuasion in the Wisdom of SolomonLeo G. Perdue 14. Dialectics: Philosophical And TalmudicJacob Neusner15. Ancient “Science Fiction:” Journeys into Space and Visions of the World in Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman Literature of AntiquityCatherine Hezser16. Luke, Josephus, and Historiography: The Formation of Luke-Acts and its Relationship to Jewish Apologetic HistoriographySean A. Adams17. Rivers, Springs, and Wells of Living Water: Metaphorical Transformation in the Johannine CorpusBeth M. Stovell 18. Martyr Theology in Hellenistic Judaism and Paul’s Conception of Jesus’ Death in Romans 3:21-26Jarvis J. Williams19. Torah Instruction, Discussion, and Prophecy in First-Century SynagoguesCarl Mosser 20. On the Trail of Trypho: Two Fragmentary Jewish-Christian Dialogues from the Ancient ChurchWilliam Varner