These essays explore the Jewish background to central issues in the New Testament -letter and spirit, prophecy and law, forgiveness, the accounts of Jesus' "trial(s)," evidence required for legal/theological claims, the shepherding images, disinheritance, and teachings on marriage and divorce.
Bernard S. Jackson (D.Phil. 1969 Oxford; D.H.L. (h.c.) 1998 Hebrew Union College), is Alliance Professor of Modern Jewish Studies, University of Manchester. A Jewish law specialist, his most recent book is Wisdom-Laws (OUP, 2006), a study of Exod. 21-22.