Jesus and Paul Global Perspectives in Honor of James D.G. Dunn for His 70th Birthday

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Jesus and the Gospels Written islands in an Oral Stream: Gospel and Oral traditions .....................3 Debtors, Laborers and Virgins: The Voice of Jesus and the Voice of Mathew in Three Parables .................13 Jesus Message of the Kingdom of God : Present and Future tensions revisited .............24 Sinner accoring to words of the Law, Righteous by works of Love ................35 Jesus and Magic in Luke-Acts ..................46 Barabbas Remembered ...................59 Judas and the Jews : Anti-Semitic Interpretation of Judas Iscariot, past and Present ...........72 Jews or christians?The Opponents of Jesus in the Fourth Gospel ......83 New Testament christology in Recent British Scholarship.....102 The Worship of Jesus among early christians ..........114 2. Paul and his Letters Inheriting the agitator`s Mantle: Paul and the Nature of Apostleship in Luke-Acts .................127 Running in Vain, But not as an Athlete : The Impact of Habakkuk..........139 Of Doing and Living the Intertextual Semantics of Leviticus in Galatians and Romans ....................151 Israel`s Triumphant King : Romans 1: 5 and the scriptures of Israel ............173 Paul and Ethnicity : The paradigm of Globalization .......184 The Epistle to Philemon: Paul`s Strategy for Forging the ties of Kinship .........207