Isaac W. started following the work of James Bos, University of Mississippi, Philosophy and Religion.
Isaac W. started following the work of Juan Carlos Ossandón, Pontificia Universitas Sanctae Crucis, Sacra Scrittura.
Isaac W. started following the work of Pierluigi Piovanelli, University of Ottawa | Université d'Ottawa, Department of Classics and Religious Studies.
Department Member, Near Eastern Studies
Thesis Title: Torah Praxis after 70 CE: Reading Matthew and Luke-Acts as Jewish Texts
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Gabriele Boccaccini
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Dissertation Committee: Daniel Boyarin, Ellen Muehlberger, Rachel Neis, and Ray Van Dam.
Dissertation Abstract:In light of newer paradigms of research, which thoroughly integrate the literature of the New Testament within its Jewish context, the following dissertation proposes to read the Gospel of Matthew in comparison to the Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles not only against their Jewish “background,” but precisely as Jewish literature in conjunction with other Jewish texts roughly contemporaneous to the period of their composition. My working thesis maintains that Jewish practices such as the Sabbath and even circumcision continued to enjoy a prominent status in the Jesus movement even after 70 CE, as evidenced by Matthew and Luke-Acts, underlining the ongoing presence of ethnic Jewish followers of Jesus in the Jesus movement as well as the early ekklesia’s proximity to Jewish society.
