Law and lawlessness in early Judaism and early Christianity / edited by David Lincicum, Ruth Sheridan, and Charles Stang.

Tübingen : Mohr Siebeck, [2019]

©2019.

x, 232 pages ; 24 cm.

Essays originally presented at the 'Lautenschlaeger Colloquium on Law and Lawlessness in Early Judaism and Christianity', which met at Mansfield College, Oxford, from 5-7 August 2015.

According to a persistent popular stereotype, early Judaism is seen as a "legalistic" religious tradition, in contrast to early Christianity, which seeks to obviate and so to supersede, annul, or abrogate Jewish law. Although scholars have known better since the surge of interest in the question of the law in post-Holocaust academic circles, the complex stances of both early Judaism and early Christianity toward questions of law observance have resisted easy resolution or sweeping generalizations. The essays in this volume aim to bring to the fore the legalistic and antinomian dimensions in both traditions, with a variety of contributions that examine the formative centuries of these two great religions and thier legal traditions. They explore how law and lawlessness are in tension throughout this early, formative period, and not finally resolved in one direction or the other.

Law and lawlessness.

e-book version.

English; Greek, Modern (1453- )

October 08, 2019

Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, 420.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Jewish law > History.