Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: April 1, 2002| Author: Matera, Frank J | Copyright information

MARKUS BOCKMUEHL, Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics (Edinburgh: Clark, 2000). Pp. xvii + 314. $49.95.

One of the most puzzling and disputed aspects of early Christian ethics is its relationship to Jewish ethics, more specifically to the teaching of Torah. While some expositors of NT ethics are satisfied to frame the issue in terms of Jewish Law versus Christian gospel, Markus Bockmuehl seeks to view the discussion in a new light, arg...

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