Paul and the Gentile Problem provides a new explanation for the apostle Paul's statements
about the Jewish law in his letters to the Romans and Galatians. Paul's arguments against …

Matthew Thiessen offers a nuanced and wide-ranging study of the nature of Jewish thought
on Jewishness, circumcision, and conversion. Examining texts from the Hebrew Bible …

Although most people acknowledge that Jesus was a first-century Jew, interpreters of the
Gospels often present him as opposed to Jewish law and customs--especially when …

On the basis of a detailed analysis of extant texts and versions, David Andrew Teeter
examines the nature and background of deliberate scribal changes in the text of biblical law …

This volume offers a comprehensive examination of circumcision and foreskin in the
undisputed Pauline epistles. Historically, Paul's discourse on circumcision has been read …

The author of Joseph and Aseneth writes a lengthy narrative about Aseneth's conversion,
thereby providing a justification for Joseph's marriage to an Egyptian woman. The author …

Various metaphorical interpretations of Gal 5: 12 were advanced in the patristic period, and
continue, in part, to the present day. Modern commentators generally favor more literal …

The life, death, resurrection, and ascension of Jesus are not often read against the backdrop
of the sacrificial system of Leviticus, despite the fact that the Letter to the Hebrews and other …

The four issues addressed here—circumcision, Sabbath, food, and purification rites—are
inherently linked to the theological debates that took place in the Second Temple period and …

In his important work, The Beginnings of Jewishness, Shaye JD Cohen has argued that what
it meant to be a Jew underwent considerable revision during the second century BCE While …