Jewish Law in Gentile Churches

Markus Bockmuehl teaches biblical and early Christian studies in the University of Oxford, UK, where he is Dean Ireland’s Professor and a Fellow of Keble College. His approach stresses the symbioses of history with theology, of Christianity alongside Judaism, and of exegesis in and as reception especially of the first three Christian centuries. Among his authored books are Seeing the Word: Refocusing New Testament Study (2006), Simon Peter in Scripture and Memory (2012), and Ancient Apocryphal Gospels (2017). Recent publications also include Creation ex Nihilo (2018, ed. with Gary A. Anderson), Austin Farrer (2020, ed. with Stephen Platten), and the English translation of Wolfram Kinzig’s Christian Persecution in Antiquity (2021).

Part One: Christianity in the Land of Israel
Halakhah and Ethics in the Jesus Tradition
Matthew's Divorce Texts in the Light of Pre-Rabbinic Jewish Law
'Let the Dead Bury Their Dead': Jesus and the Law Revisited
James the Just and Antioch

Part Two: Jewish and Christian Ethics for Gentiles
Natural Law in Second Temple Judaism
Natural Law in the New Testament
The Noachide Commandments and New Testament Ethics

Part Three: The Development of Public Ethics
The Beginning of Public Ethics
Jewish and Christian Public Ethics in the Early Roman Empire