The Jewish World around the New Testament

Introduction - The Martyrdom of Enoch and Elijah: Jewish or Christian? - Enoch and Elijah in the Coptic Apocalypse of Elijah - The Rise of Apocalyptic - The Delay of the Parousia - A Note on a Problem in the Greek Version of 1 Enoch 1:9 - The Son of Man: 'A Man in my Position' or 'Someone'? - The Apocalypses in J. H. Charlesworth's Old Testament Pseudepigrapha - Pseudo-Apostolic Letters - Kainam the Son of Arpachshad in Luke's Genealogy -The List of the Tribes of Israel in Revelation 7 - The "Parting of the Ways": What Happened and Why - The Messianic Interpretation of Isaiah 10:34 - The Relevance of Extra-Canonical Jewish Texts to New Testament Study - Josephus' Account of the Temple in Contra Apionem 2.102-109 -Life, Death, and the Afterlife in Second Temple Judaism - What if Paul had Travelled East rather than West? - Covenant, Law and Salvation in the Jewish Apocalypses - The Restoration of Israel in Luke-Acts - Paul and Other Jews with Latin Names in the New Testament - The Horarium of Adam and the Chronology of the Passion - The Spirit of God in Us Loathes Envy: James 4:5 - Tobit as a Parable for the Exiles of Northern Israel - The Continuing Quest for the Origins of the Old Testament Pseudepigrapha