The Torah in the New Testament Papers Delivered at the Manchester-Lausanne Seminar of June 2008

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Gospels ........1 Mark 7. 1-23: Revisiting the Questions of all Foods Cleadn ........8 The Salvific Significance of the Torah in Mark 10, 17-22 and 12. 28-23.............21 The Source Q and the Torah .............32 Jesus, son of Joseph and son of David, in the Gospels ..........65 The Rhetorical Function of John`s Portrayal of the Jewish Law ..........82 Part II. Acts Paul and the Torah in the Acts of the Apostles ..........98 Acts 15 or the Return of the Repressed ? The Church and the Law in Acts .......118 Some observations on the Apostolic Decree in Acts 15. 20, 29.........133 3. Letters Law and Theology in Galatians .............143 Helping paul`s Argument work ? The curse of Galatians ...........154 Torah, Rewritten Torah and the Letters of Jude .............180 4. Other Texts The End of the Law : The Messianic Torah in the Pseudepigrapha ..........196 Educating gentiles: Explanation of Torah in the New Testament, Philo and Josephus ............208 Legislation as Social Engineering in the New Testament world ..........218 Filled with the Glory of God: The Appropriation of Tabernacle imagery in the New Testament and Gregory of Nyssa .........228