The New Testament at the Intersection of Judaism and Hellenism
Collected Essays II
By (author) Carl R. Holladay
Hardback (Forthcoming)
(January 2027)
ISBN: 9783162007261
6.1 x 9.13 inches
Price: $255.00
Convinced that the New Testament mirrors the complexity of the ancient Mediterranean world, Carl Holladay shows how the Synoptic Gospels, Luke-Acts, and Paul can be read profitably alongside Jewish Hellenistic writers (Philo of Alexandria and Flavius Josephus) and pagan authors (the Greek historian Dionysius of Halicarnassus).
Carl Holladay illustrates the exegetical benefits of viewing the Roman world during the late republic and early empire as a complex mixture of religious and philosophical traditions within which Judaism and Hellenism are two distinct yet interactive systems of thought that helped shape the contours and literary texture of the New Testament.
Some of the topics explored: how Roman imperial attitudes toward kingship, especially within the provinces, inform the portrayal of Jesus as king in Matthew’s Gospel; how Philo of Alexandria’s views of human agency relate to other Jewish writings during the Second Temple period; how the apostle Paul’s report of Jesus’s words at the Last Supper compares with other “holy pronouncements” by deities in Greco-Roman cults and associations; how the right to face one’s accusers, a prominent feature of the western legal tradition, relates to the statement by the Roman procurator Porcius Festus in Acts 25:16; whether the interpretive scheme of promise-fulfillment that figures prominently in the New Testament is an early precursor to a view of scripture that typifies modern historical criticism; how Luke’s language of self-description as an investigative writer who seeks to provide a coherent, reliable account of Jesus and the early church compares with the technical historiographical vocabulary of such self-proclaimed historians as Dionysius of Halicarnassus and Flavius Josephus; and when the Old Testament, which began to be translated into Greek in the late third century BCE, first came to the attention of pagan writers.
1. Jesus and the Gospels
2. Acts of the Apostles
3. Paul
4. Hellenism, Hellenistic Judaism, Philo of Alexandria
5. Biblical Interpretation
Born 1943; 1975 PhD University of Cambridge; 1975-80 Yale Divinity School; 1980-2019 Emory University’s Candler School of Theology; 1983-91 Associate Dean; 1990-2002 Professor of New Testament; 1992-94 Dean of the Faculty and Academic Affairs; 2002-19 Charles Howard Candler Professor of New Testament; since 2019 Charles Howard Candler Professor Emeritus of New Testament.
- By (author) Carl R. Holladay
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