The Covenant in Judaism and Paul: A Study of Ritual Boundaries as Identity Markers

From: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly | Date: April 1, 1998| Author: | Copyright information

ELLEN JUHL CHRISTIANSEN, The Covenant in Judaism and Paul: A Study of Ritual Boundaries as Identity Markers (AGJU 27; Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1995). Pp. x + 396. Nlg 130, $84.

In this slightly revised dissertation (University of Durham, 1993, directed by James Dunn) Christiansen explores covenantal identity and its ritual boundaries as bases for social and ecclesiological self-understanding in Palestinian Judaism and early Christianity. In part A she deals with the OT, in part B with Jubilees, the Temple Scroll, the Damascus Document, the Rule of the Community from Qumran, and the ...

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