Abrahamic descent, testamentary adoption, and the law in Galatians: differentiating Abraham's sons, seed, and children of promise
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...
| Sumario: | 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 /Bradley R. Trick -- Bibliography /Bradley R. Trick -- Index of Authors /Bradley R. Trick -- Index of Ancient Sources /Bradley R. Trick. 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) and adoption, Trick establishes that Gal 3-4 portrays the Abrahamic διαθήκη as a Hellenistic testament through which God adopts Abraham. This insight enables a coherent and collectively consistent interpretation of Paul’s Abrahamic appeals to emerge, one in which “sons” (3:7) designates Jews, “children of promise” (4:28) designates gentiles, and “seed” designates Christ (3:16) and the interdependent union of Jews and gentiles in Christ (3:29). The need to preserve the singularity of this seed then grounds God’s giving of the law |
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| Notas: | "A thoroughgoing revision of my 2010 dissertation..." |
| Descripción Física: | 1 Online-Ressource (XV, 389 Seiten) |
| ISBN: | 978-90-04-32387-2 |
| Acceso: | Available to subscribing member institutions only |
| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/9789004323872 |
