In this collection of essays, leading New Testament scholars reassess the reciprocal
relationship between Matthew and Second Temple Judaism. Some contributions focus on …

For almost two millennia, readers of the New Testament have been trying to figure out Paul.
The struggle with his words begins already within the canon itself. While Acts portrays with …

Genealogies, knowledge, and purity all can provide separate identities with the means for
competing self-definition. This article assumes a social location near Ephesus with …

While understandings of Johannine Christianity have been many and varied, single-issue
analyses no longer suffice. Things were more complex than simply inferring that synagogue …

Since the immensely influential work of J. Louis Martyn, many Johannine scholars have
interpreted John's ἀποσυνάγωγος passages (9: 22, 12: 42, 16: 2) as reflective of the …

Among the most perplexing of John's theological riddles is question of salvific universalism
and particularity. John is both the greatest biblical source of Christian universalism and the …

Wil Rogan argues that, contrary to twentieth-century interpretation, the Fourth Gospel did not
replace purity with faith in Jesus. Instead, as with other early Jewish writings, its discourse …

Pages 9-21 in Within Judaism? : interpretive trajectories in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
from the first to the twenty-first Page 1 Pages 9-21 in Within Judaism? : interpretive trajectories …

Purity in the Gospel of John is a wonder. Only in the Fourth Gospel does Jesus call his
disciples pure, wash his disciples' feet, and baptize. At the same time, the Fourth Gospel …

Among the most perplexing of John's theological riddles is question of salvific universalism
and particularity. John is both the greatest biblical source of Christian universalism and the …