Jewish law in gentile churches : Halakhah and the beginning of Christian public ethics / Markus Bockmuehl.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Christianity in the Land of Israel -- Halakhah and Ethics in the Jesus Tradition -- The Precedence of Written Torah -- 'The Weightier Things of the Torah' -- Act and Motive -- Purity and Integrity -- Antinomian Eschatology? -- Matthew's Divorce Texts in the Light of Pre-Rabbinic Jewish Law -- 'Let the Dead Bury their Dead': Jesus and the Law Revisited -- The Prevailing Consensus -- Assessment of the Case for the Prevailing Consensus -- Possible Ways Forward -- Nazirite Halakhah -- James, Israel and Antioch -- First-Century Antioch -- Antioch from the Perspective of the Land of Israel -- Four Theses on James the Just and Antioch -- Jewish and Christian Ethics for Gentiles -- Natural Law in Second Temple Judaism -- The Old Testament -- Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha -- The Dead Sea Scrolls and Early Rabbinic Literature -- Philo and Josephus -- Natural Law in the New Testament? -- 'Nature' and other Conundrums -- Jesus and the Gospels -- The Acts of the Apostles -- Paul -- The Noachide Commandments and New Testament Ethics -- Methodological Concerns -- Form and Substance in New Testament Ethics -- The Noachide Commandments -- Noachide Law and the New Testament -- The Development of Public Ethics -- The Beginning of Christian Public Ethics: From Luke to Aristides and Diognetus -- Three Beginnings -- New Testament Antecedents -- Public Ethics in the Second Century -- The Earliest Apologists -- Aristides of Athens -- The Epistle to Diognetus -- Jewish and Christian Public Ethics in the Early Roman Empire.