Paul and the Early Jewish Encounter with Deuteronomy

Author： David Lincicum

Publisher： Mohr Siebeck‎

Publication year： 2010

E-ISBN: 9783161516276

P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783161503863

Subject： B971.1 Old Testament

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Language： ENG

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Paul and the Early Jewish Encounter with Deuteronomy

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Attending to the realia of ancient practices for reading Scripture, David Lincicum charts the effective history of Deuteronomy in a broad range of early Jewish authors in antiquity. By viewing Paul as one example of this long history of tradition, the apostle emerges as a Jewish reader of Deuteronomy. In light of his transformation by encounter with the risen Christ, Paul's interpretation of the end of the Pentateuch alternates between the traditional and the radical, but remains in conversation with his Jewish rough contemporaries. Specifically, Paul is seen to interpret Deuteronomy with a threefold construal as ethical authority, theological norm, and a lens for the interpretation of Israel's history. In this way, the volume sets Paul firmly in the history of Jewish biblical interpretation and at the same time provides a wide-ranging survey of the impact of Deuteronomy in antiquity.

Chapter

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1. Inferring an Icon: Paul, Scripture and the Jews

1.2. Paul and Deuteronomy

1.3. Locating the Present Study’s Approach

1.3.1. The Search for Holistic Construal

1.3.2. On Intertextuality and Effective History

1.3.3. A Polyphonic Conversation

1.3.4. Is It Legitimate to Isolate Deuteronomy?

1.3.5. Some Matters of Definition

1.4. The Plan of the Present Study

Part I. The Ancient Encounter with Deuteronomy

Chapter 2. The Liturgical Deuteronomy in the Second Temple Period

2.1. Introduction

2.2. Encountering Deuteronomy: the Material Realia

2.3. The Synagogue and the Reading of the Law

2.3.1. The Synagogue in the Second Temple Period

2.3.2. The Public Reading of the Law

2.3.3. Lectionary Cycles and Lectio Continua: Did They Exist in the First Century?

Excursus: Deuteronomy’s Place in the Library

2.4. Tefillin, Mezuzot and Excerpted Texts

2.5. The Recitation of the Shema‘ (Qiriath Shema‘)

2.6. Paul and the Liturgical Deuteronomy

2.6.1. Paul’s Background and Education

2.6.2. Paul and the Greek Liturgy of the Synagogue

2.7. Conclusion

Part II. Reading Deuteronomy

Introduction to Part II

Chapter 3. Deuteronomy at Qumran

3.1. Introduction

3.2. The Role of Deuteronomy in Major Compositions

3.2.1. Deuteronomy as Stipulating Entrance to the Covenant: 1QS 1:16–3:12

3.2.2. Deuteronomy as Actualized Legal Authority: The Temple Scroll and Damascus Document

3.2.3. Deuteronomy as a Judgment on History: 4QMMT and Apocryphon of Jeremiah

3.3. Deuteronomy in Biblical and Rewritten Bible Manuscripts

3.4. Excerpted Texts, Tefillin and Mezuzot

3.5. Conclusion: Deuteronomy at Qumran

Chapter 4. Deuteronomy in Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha

4.1. Introduction: A Deuteronomic Pattern?

4.2. Jubilees

4.3. Second Maccabees

4.4. Pseudo-Philo

4.5. Tobit

4.6. Baruch

4.7. Testament of Moses

4.8. Conclusion

Chapter 5. Deuteronomy in the Works of Philo of Alexandria

5.1. Introduction

5.2. How Philo Refers to Deuteronomy

5.3. Deuteronomy in the Exposition of the Laws of Moses

5.3.1. The Last Acts of Moses

5.3.2. Re-ordering and Commending the Law

5.3.3. Blessing, Curse, and the Hope of Restoration

5.4. Deuteronomy in the Allegorical Commentary on Genesis

5.5. Conclusion: Deuteronomy in the Works of Philo

Chapter 6. Deuteronomy in Paul’s Letters

6.1. Introduction

6.2. How Paul Refers to Deuteronomy

6.3. Deuteronomy as Ethical Authority

6.3.1. The Decalogue

6.3.2. Purge the Evil From Your Midst

6.3.3. Muzzling the Ox

6.3.4. The Testimony of Two or Three Witnesses

6.3.5. Vengeance Is Mine

6.3.6. Conclusion: Deuteronomy as Ethical Authority

6.4. Deuteronomy as Theological Authority

6.4.1. The Shema'

6.4.2. Theological Axioms

6.4.3. Conclusion: Deuteronomy as Theological Authority

6.5. Deuteronomy as the Lens of Israel’s History

6.5.1. Blessing and Curse

6.5.2. True Circumcision and the Covenant

6.5.3. The Nearness of the Word

6.5.4. Sin, Restoration, and the Gentiles

6.5.5. Conclusion: Deuteronomy as the Lens of Israel’s History

6.6. Conclusion: The Shape of Paul’s Deuteronomy

Chapter 7. Deuteronomy in the Works of Josephus

7.1. Introduction

7.2. Deuteronomy as Constitution, Law, and Biography

7.2.1. The πολιτεία of Israel

7.2.2. The Laws

7.2.3. Last Acts and Words of Moses

7.3. A Deuteronomic View of History

7.4. Conclusion: Deuteronomy in the Works of Josephus

Chapter 8. Later Trajectories of Interpretation: Sifre and Targums

8.1. Introduction

8.2. Mishnaizing Scripture: Sifre to Deuteronomy

8.3. Deuteronomy as Rebuke and Prophetic Poetry: Targums

8.4. Conclusion: Later Trajectories of Interpretation

Chapter 9. Conclusion: Paul’s Deuteronomy

9.1. Paul’s Deuteronomy and Others’

9.2. Paul’s Deuteronomy and Deuteronomy’s Paul

9.3. Revisiting the Icon

Appendix: Biblical Passages in Tefillin, Mezuzot and Excerpted Texts

Bibliography

1. Primary Sources

2. Grammars, Concordances, Lexica and Reference Works

3. Secondary Literature

Index of Ancient Sources

1. Hebrew Bible and Septuagint

2. New Testament

3. Old Testament Pseudepigrapha

4. Dead Sea Scrolls

5. Philo of Alexandria

6. Josephus

7. Targums

8. Mishnah

9. Tosefta

10. Jerusalem Talmud

11. Babylonian Talmud

12. Other Ancient Jewish Writings

13. Other Ancient Christian Writings

14. Classical Greek and Latin Sources

15. Manuscripts

16. Inscriptions

Index of Modern Authors

Index of Subjects

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