Preface Acknowledgements Abbreviations Introduction – John Barclay, University of Durham, UK and Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, Australia I. The Reception of Jewish Texts Chapter One. The Early Christian Reception of the Legend of the Greek Translation of the Scriptures – Judith Lieu, University of Cambridge, UK Chapter Two: The Law and Prophets as Origen’s Gospel – Devin White, Australian Catholic University, Australia Chapter Three: The Reception of the Watchers in Tertullian with regard to 1 Cor 11:2-16 – Stephen Carlson, Australian Catholic University, Australia II. The Reception of Jewish Themes, Images, and Categories Chapter Four: ‘Not Like the Gentiles Who Do Not Know God’ (1 Thess 4:5). The Function of Othering and Anti-Pagan Stereotypes of Sexual Wrongdoing in Early Jewish and Christian Texts – Christine Gerber, University of Hamburg, Germany Chapter Five: Patterns of Christian Reinterpretations of the Maccabean Martyrs – Jan Willem van Henten, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Chapter Six: ‘The Blind and the Lame’: An Adapted Category in Early Christian Communal Self-understanding – Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, Australia Chapter Seven: The Ethics of Eden: Luxury, Banqueting, and the New Jerusalem – Candida Moss, University of Birmingham, UK Chapter Eight: Scribes, Pharisees, Sadducees, and Trypho: Jewish Leadership and Jesus Traditions in Justin’s Construal of Christian and Jewish Identity – Benjamin Edsall, Australian Catholic University, Australia III. The Reception of Jewish Practices Chapter Nine: Denial of Forgiveness and the Spirit: ‘Anxiety of Influence’ and the Christian Demotion of John’s Baptism – Joel Marcus, Duke Divinity School, USA Chapter Ten: Tradition and Authority in Scribal Culture: A Comparison Between the Ya?adic Dead Sea Scroll texts and the Gospel of Matthew – Loren Stuckenbruck, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, Germany Chapter Eleven: Remember the Poor: Early Christian Refocusing of a Jewish Communal Responsibility – John M.G. Barclay, University of Durham, UK Bibliography Indexes

This series interrogates the assumptions which currently lie behind the study of the ‘historical’ Jesus. History being not simply the events of the past, but a compilation of what we can reconstruct of the past based upon the sources we have, the study of the historical Jesus is not asking: ‘What happened?’ but rather ‘How was the person of Jesus interpreted differently by the various and diverse groups who received him?’ The series will thus illuminate the reception history of Jesus in the Jesus tradition in the first three centuries of Christianity, engaging with memory theory as a conceptual framework. Through the inclusion of study of both canonical and non-canonical texts, texts within the literary gospel genre and texts outside of this literary genre such as the collection of early Christian texts known as the Apostolic Fathers, patristic writers, and traditions such as the Abgar Legend, this series expands and revises the current conception of scholarly discussion on Jesus reception in early Christianity.