What Does the Scripture Say?' Studies in the Function of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity

Craig A. Evans (Ph.D., Claremont) is Payzant Distinguished Professor of New Testament, Acadia Divinity College Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.H. Daniel Zacharias is a Lecturer at Acadia Divinity College, Nova Scotia, Canada.

• List of AbbreviationsList of ContributorsCraig A. Evans and H. Daniel Zacharias Introduction1: Daniel M. Gurtner "‘Fasting' and ‘Forty Nights': The Matthean Temptation Narrative (4.1-11) and Moses Typology"\Chapter2: Christopher N. Chandler "‘Love your neighbor as yourself' (Lev. 19.18b) in Early Jewish-Christian Exegetical Practice and Missional Formulation"3: Elizabeth Talbot "Rest, Eschatology, and Sabbath in Matthew 11.28-30"4: Alicia Myers "Jesus as Ideal King: Isaiah 42 and the Characterization of Jesus in Matthew 12.17-21"5: Catherine Sider Hamilton "Blood and Secrets: The Re-telling of Genesis 1-6 in 1 Enoch 6-11 and its Echoes in Susanna and the Gospel of Matthew"6: Jens Herzer "The Riddle of the Holy Ones in Matthew 27.51b-53: A New Proposal for a crux interpretum"7: Jocelyn McWhirter "Messianic Exegesis in Mark 1.2-3"8: Jamal-Dominique Hopkins "Levitical Purification in the New Testament Gospels"9: Amanda Miller "A Different Kind of Victory: 4Q427 7 I-II and the Magnificat as Later Developments of the Hebrew Victory Song"10: Adam Gregerman "Biblical Prophecy and the Fate of the Nations in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretations of Isaiah"Name IndexSubject Index

This richly methodological approach should encourage Polish biblical scholars with renewed efforts in this vast field of research.