Abrahamic descent, testamentary adoption, and the law in Galatians : differentiating Abraham's sons, seed, and children of promise /

Abrahamic descent, testamentary adoption, and the law in Galatians : differentiating Abraham's sons, seed, and children of promise /

In this volume, Bradley R. Trick argues that Hellenistic testamentary adoption provides the key to understanding Abrahamic descent and its implications for the law in Galatians. By thoroughly analyzing the Greco-Roman and Jewish contexts of Paul's references to testaments/covenants (διαθῆκαι) a...

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Main Author: Trick, Bradley R., 1975-

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: Novum Testamentum, Supplements 169.
Novum Testamentum Supplements Online, Supplement 2017, ISBN: 9789004324404.

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Call Number: BS2685.52

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
  • Bradley R. Trick
  • 1 Abrahamic Descent in Galatians: Sons, Seed, and Children of Promise /
  • Bradley R. Trick
  • 2 The Jews as the Faith-Based Sons of Abraham in Gal 3:6-7 /
  • Bradley R. Trick
  • 3 Transgressing the Law in Faith as the New Expression of Jewish Sonship in Gal 3:6-14 /
  • Bradley R. Trick
  • 4 Testamentary Adoption, Dual Sonship, and the Identification of Christ as the Abrahamic Seed in Gal 3:15-16 /
  • Bradley R. Trick
  • 5 The Singularity of Abraham's Seed and the Law's Irrelevance for Inheriting the Promise in Gal 3:15-20 /
  • Bradley R. Trick
  • 6 The Abrahamic Seed as the Key to Understanding the Law in Gal 3:21-4:11 /
  • Bradley R. Trick
  • 7 The Contrast of Nonadoptive (Sinaitic) and Adoptive (Abrahamic) Testaments as Jewish "Mothers" in Gal 4:24-27 /
  • Bradley R. Trick
  • 8 The Interdependent Union of the Gentile Children of Promise with the Jewish Children of the Free Woman in Gal 4:21-5:1 /
  • Bradley R. Trick
  • 9 Jewish Sons, Christ the Seed, and the Gentile Children of Promise /
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  • Bibliography /
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  • Index of Authors /
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  • Index of Ancient Sources /
  • Bradley R. Trick.