Earliest Christianity within the Boundaries of Judaism

Alan Avery-Peck is Kraft-Hiatt Professor of Judaic Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the College of the Holy Cross, Worcester, Massachusetts. Craig A. Evans is the John Bisagno Distinguished Professor of Christian Origins at Houston Baptist University in Texas. He is the author of several books on Jesus and the Gospels and the Jewish setting of early Christianity. Jacob Neusner is Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of the History and Theology of Judaism and Senior Fellow, Institute of Advanced Theology, at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York.

• The ContributorsPrefaceIntroductionPart 1: MethodologyA Phenomenological Approach to Values and Valuing: A Research Strategy, M. Kathryn ArmisteadJustification: An Essay on Approach and Method in Biblical Studies, Baruch A. LevineCritical Issues in the Formation of the Hebrew Bible, Lee Martin McDonaldPart 2: Earliest Christianity in Its Judaic SettingGamaliel and Paul, Richard BauckhamWhat Shall We Remember, The Deeds or the Faith of Our Ancestors? A Comparison of 1 Maccabees 2 and Hebrews 11, Christian M.M. BradyReading Paul in Relation to Judaism: Comparison or Contrast?, William S. CampbellThe Targums and the Apostle Paul, Delio DelRioFew and Far Between: The Life of a Creed, Scot McKnightPatterns of Prophecy, Jacob NeusnerWhat James Was, His More Famous Brother Was Also, John PainterPart 3: Gospel StudiesThe Compassionate Father of Two Difficult Sons (Luke 15:11-32) and Judaic Interpretation of the Ark and 2 Samuel 6, Roger David AusParables of Jesus: Told and Enacted, Frederick Houk BorschPassover and the Date of the Crucifixion, Philip R. DaviesAn Aramaic Parable in a Greek Gospel: The Quest for the Original Meaning of the Vineyard Parable, Craig A. EvansThe Gospel of Mark in Syriac Christianity, Daniel M. GurtnerThe Legacy of B.F. Westcott and Oral Gospel Tradition, Stanley E. PorterMisunderstood New Testament Texts: Mark 2:23 and Galatians 2:1, John TownsendPart 4: History and Meaning in the Later ChurchOrigen: Exegesis, Contemplative Prayer, and the Limits of Language, Robert M. BerchmanExploring the Origins of the descensus ad inferos, J.H. CharlesworthThe Chalcedonian Formula and Twentieth Century Ecumenism, Paul B. Clayton, Jr.The Gospel of Participation, Klyne SnodgrassOne Supper, Many Suppers: The Eucharist in the Earliest Christian Communities, Armand Puig TarrechMajor Publications of Bruce ChiltonIndex of Biblical and Post-Biblical ReferencesIndex of Topics