Early Christian Judaism

Our 2019 theme is “The New Testament within Judaism.” We will distribute the papers in advance to our group email list. To be added to the list, click here. During our meeting each presenter will summarize his/her paper in fifteen minutes to allow fifteen minutes for discussion. Attendees are encouraged to read the papers in advance, though drop-ins are welcome.

• Benjamin Snyder, Asbury Theological Seminary, Presiding
• David Smith, Duke Divinity School
  The Jewishness of Luke: Reconsidering Luke-Acts in the ‘Parting of the Ways’ (30 min)
• Kelly D. Liebengood, LeTourneau University
  Reconsidering the Ethnic Identity of 1 Peter’s ‘Elect Sojourners’ (30 min)
• Hannah K. Harrington, Patten University
  The Metaphor of Body=Sanctuary in Second Temple Judaism (30 min)
• Carl E. Pace, Ohio Wesleyan University and David B. Sloan, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School
  The Jewishness of Early Christian Trinitarianism (30 min)

Our 2018 theme is "Gospels and the Partings of the Ways." We will discuss four papers touching on the Historical Jesus and the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and John in their relation to Judaism. Copies of the four papers will be sent in advance to those on the group email list.

• Benjamin J. Snyder, Asbury Theological Seminary, Presiding

• Michael F. Bird, Ridley College
  The Historical Jesus and the Parting of the Ways Revisited (30 min)

• John VanMaaren, McMaster University
  No Early Parting of the Ways: The Gospel of Mark within the Boundaries of Jewishness (30 min)

• Wally V. Cirafesi, University of Oslo
  Jewishness as Genealogy in the Fourth Gospel: Situating John's loudaioi within Debates over Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism (30 min)

• Gregory S. Thellman, Evangelical Theological Seminary in Osijek, Croatia
  Two Competing Visions of Restoration: Matthew 28:18-20 and 2 Chronicles 36:23 (30 min)

• David B. Sloan, John Carroll University, Presiding

• David S. Ritsema, B. H. Carroll Theological Institute
  The Divine Messiah: Does John's Portrait of a Son of God, Messiah in John 20:30-31 Draw on a Jewish Messianic Expectation of a Supernatural Figure? (35 min)

• Michael P. Theophilos, Australian Catholic University
  Jewish-Christian Relations Prior to 70 C.E. in Light of the Coins of the First Jewish War (35 min)

• Break (5 min)

• Jack Gibson, Grace Brethren High School
  James and the Decline of Jewish Christianity (35 min)

• Discussion (10 min)

Nov. 17, 3:30–5:30pm     Dartmouth (Third Level) – Boston Marriott Copley Place (MCP)