New Creation in Paul's Letters and Thought (Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series)

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 7
Copyright......Page 8
Dedication......Page 9
CONTENTS......Page 11
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS......Page 13
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 15
The current debate......Page 17
New creature......Page 18
New community......Page 20
Method and sources......Page 21
PART I New creation: central Jewish texts......Page 25
2 NEW CREATION IN THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES: AN OVERVIEW......Page 27
Creation and redemption......Page 28
New creation and second exodus......Page 30
The “former” and the “new”......Page 31
Isaiah 65 and 66: a new heaven and new earth......Page 32
Jeremiah: a new covenant......Page 33
Israel’s wicked heart......Page 34
The plight and the solution......Page 35
Ezekiel: a new heart and a new spirit......Page 36
Israel’s adulterous heart......Page 37
Israel’s hardened heart......Page 38
Summary and conclusions......Page 39
Jubilees: a case study......Page 42
Jubilees as apocalyptic......Page 43
Divine disclosure and the decoding of history......Page 44
Apology and historiography......Page 45
Hope and despair......Page 49
Central texts......Page 52
A thematic synopsis of Jubilees 1.7–29 and 23.11–32......Page 53
Sin, Satan, and the Gentiles......Page 54
Moral renovation......Page 59
New creation: cosmological transformation......Page 62
Eschatology and the apocalyptic paradigm......Page 64
New creation and the apocalyptic paradigm......Page 66
Summary and conclusions......Page 68
Plot summary......Page 70
Language, date, provenance, and character......Page 71
Purpose and theme......Page 72
New creation......Page 73
Joseph and Aseneth 8.9: translation and structure......Page 74
Strophes A and B: analysis and interpretation......Page 75
Strophe C: analysis and interpretation......Page 79
Excursus: honey in the conversion cycle......Page 81
Strophe D: analysis and interpretation......Page 87
Summary and conclusions......Page 89
Summary of part I......Page 91
PART II From death to life: new creation in the contours of Paul’s thought......Page 93
The work of Arnold van Gennep......Page 95
Death and life......Page 97
Transformation......Page 98
Empowerment......Page 99
Demarcation......Page 100
Betwixt and between......Page 101
The cosmic simile......Page 102
Excursus: Paul and new birth......Page 103
Interpreting religious symbolism......Page 104
Summary and conclusions......Page 105
6 NEWNESS OF LIFE: ROMANS 6.1–11......Page 107
Context......Page 108
Structure......Page 109
Death to sin......Page 111
The subjects of death......Page 112
The old person......Page 113
Newness of life......Page 116
Summary......Page 119
Context......Page 120
Structure......Page 123
The law, the flesh, sin, and death......Page 124
Newness of the Spirit, oldness of the letter......Page 125
The meaning of the letter–Spirit antithesis......Page 126
The origin of the Letter–Spirit antithesis......Page 127
Summary......Page 128
8 SPIRIT, NEWNESS, LIFE: THE PAULINE ANTECEDENTS......Page 129
The Spirit and the eschaton......Page 130
The Spirit and life......Page 132
The Spirit of life......Page 136
Summary......Page 138
9 CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST: GALATIANS 2.19–20......Page 139
Dying and living......Page 140
Paul’s emphatic “I”......Page 142
The love of Christ......Page 143
Summary of part II......Page 144
PART III The old and the new: new creation in the context of Paul’s letters......Page 147
The literary context of 2 Corinthians 5.11–21......Page 149
The literary tone of 2 Corinthians 2.14–7.4......Page 150
The salvation-historical context of 2 Corinthians 2.14–7.4......Page 151
2 Corinthians 1.21–22......Page 152
2 Corinthians 5.5......Page 153
The programmatic character of the introductory thanksgiving (2.14–17)......Page 155
Identifying Paul’s “opponents”......Page 156
Paul’s spoken message in 2.17d......Page 158
Paul’s spoken message in 1 Corinthians 1–4......Page 159
Paul’s spoken message in 2 Corinthians 10–13......Page 161
Paul’s spoken message in 2 Corinthians 3–4......Page 164
Summary......Page 165
The theological antecedents of Paul’s argument: Jeremiah and Ezekiel......Page 166
The New Covenant antitheses of 2 Corinthians 2–7......Page 167
From life to life: the motif of transformation......Page 169
Image and glory......Page 170
2 Corinthians 3.18......Page 171
2 Corinthians 4.4, 6......Page 174
Paul’s ministry of…......Page 177
The complaint of Paul’s…......Page 179
New creation......Page 187
New creation and the Spirit......Page 199
Adam, image, and new creation......Page 201
The social function of new creation in 2 Corinthians 5.17......Page 202
Galatians: recent issues in interpretation......Page 204
Galatians 6.12–18 in epistolary and rhetorical perspective......Page 206
Paul as paradigm (Galatians 1 and 2)......Page 207
Paul’s “biography of reversal”......Page 208
Appearance versus reality......Page 211
Summary......Page 214
The decisive question…......Page 215
The decisive evidence: the Spirit......Page 217
The blessing, the inheritance, the promise, and the Spirit......Page 218
Children, heirs, the Spirit and the covenants......Page 219
The Spirit and the flesh (Gal. 5.13–6.10)......Page 223
New creation......Page 225
Excursus: boasting in Paul and Jeremiah......Page 236
…in the argument of Galatians......Page 241
…and the Spirit......Page 242
…and death–life symbolism......Page 243
Galatians 6.15 and the motif of transformation......Page 245
…and the Gentile mission......Page 246
Galatians 6.15 and 2 Cor. 5.17......Page 247
From death to life......Page 249
The Spirit and the flesh......Page 250
An analogical versus a history-of-traditions methodology......Page 252
Jubilees and Joseph and Aseneth......Page 253
Paul and apocalyptic......Page 254
New creation and conversion......Page 256
REFERENCES......Page 258
INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED......Page 284
INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS......Page 303