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This book provides a comprehensive biblical and theological survey
of the people of God in the Old and New Testaments, offering
insights for today's transformed and ethnically diverse church.
Jarvis Williams explains that God's people have always been
intended to be a diverse community. From Genesis to Revelation, God
has intended to restore humanity's vertical relationship with God,
humanity's horizontal relationship with one another, and the entire
creation through Jesus. Through Jesus, both Jew and gentile are
reconciled to God and together make up a transformed people.
Williams then applies his biblical and theological analysis to
selected aspects of the current conversation about race, racism,
and ethnicity, explaining what it means to be the church in today's
multiethnic context. He argues that the church should demonstrate
redemptive kingdom diversity, for it has been transformed into a
new community that is filled with many diverse ethnic communities.
A careful and exegetical reading and examination of the Pauline
passages that suggests particular atonement, together with a
thorough engagement with contemporary scholars on the subject. In
For Whom Did Christ Die? Williams argues that according to Paul,
Jesus died exclusively for the elect to achieve their salvation.
The book attempts to show that particular atonement is not simply
an abstract theological doctrine, imposed on the text by
theologians, and void of a biblical or exegetical foundation, but
that this doctrine is biblical, is Pauline, and that particular
atonement can be detected in Pauline theology by means of a
careful, exegetical analysis of the relevant Pauline texts and of
the relevant texts in the Old Testament and Second Temple Judaism.
In Christ Died for Our Sins, Jarvis J. Williams argues a twofold
thesis: First, that Paul in Romans presents Jesus' death as both a
representation of, and a substitute for, Jews and Gentiles. Second,
that the Jewish martyrological narratives in certain Second Temple
Jewish texts are a background behind Paul's presentation of Jesus'
death. By means of careful textual analysis, Williams argues that
the Jewish martyrological narratives appropriated and applied
Levitical cultic language and Isaianic language to the deaths of
the Torah-observant Jewish martyrs in order to present their deaths
as a representation, a substitution, and as Israel's Yom Kippur for
non-Torah-observant Jews. Williams seeks to show that Paul
appropriated and applied this same language and conceptuality in
order to present Jesus' death as the death of a Torah-observant Jew
serving as a representation, a substitution, and as the Yom Kippur
for both Jews and Gentiles. Scholars working in the areas of
Romans, Pauline theology, Second Temple Judaism, atonement in Paul,
or early Christian origins will find much to stimulate and provoke
in these pages.
Jarvis J. Williams argues that the Jewish martyrological ideas,
codified in 2 and 4 Maccabees and in selected texts in LXX Daniel
3, provide an important background to understanding Paul's
statements about the cursed Christ in Gal. 3.13, and the
soteriological benefits that his death achieves for Jews and
Gentiles in Galatians. Williams further argues that Paul modifies
Jewish martyrology to fit his exegetical, polemical, and
theological purposes, in order to persuade the Galatians not to
embrace the 'other' gospel of their opponents. In addition to
providing a detailed and up to date history of research on the
scholarship of Gal. 3.13, Williams provides five arguments
throughout this volume related to the scriptural, theological and
conceptual, lexical, grammatical and polemical points of contact,
and finally the discontinuities between Galatians and Jewish
martyrological ideas. Drawing on literature from Second Temple
traditions to directly compare with Gal. 3.13, Williams adds new
insights to Paul's defense of his Torah-free-gentile-inclusive
gospel, and his rhetoric against his opponents.
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In an age in which scholars continue to produce books on the nature
and significance of Jesus's death, books that often assume the Old
Testament cult was the New Testament authors' primary background
for their conception of Jesus's death, Jarvis J. Williams offers a
fresh and novel contribution regarding both the nature of and
background influences behind Paul's conception of Jesus's death. He
argues that Paul's conception of Jesus's death both as an atoning
sacrifice and as a saving event for Jews and Gentiles was
significantly influenced by Maccabean Martyr Theology. To argue his
thesis, Williams engages in an intense exegesis of 2 and 4
Maccabees while also interacting with other Second Temple Jewish
texts that are relevant to his thesis. Williams further interacts
with relevant Old Testament texts and the key texts in the Pauline
corpus. He argues that the authors of 2 and 4 Maccabees present the
deaths of the Jewish martyrs during the reign of Antiochus
Epiphanes IV as atoning sacrifices and as a saving event for
Israel. He further argues that, although the Old Testament's cultic
language certainly influenced Paul's understanding of Jesus's death
at certain junctures in his letters, the Old Testament cult
alone-which emphasized animal sacrifices-cannot fully explain why
or even how Paul could conceive of Jesus's death, a human
sacrifice, as both an atoning sacrifice and a saving event for Jews
and Gentiles. Finally, Williams highlights the lexical,
theological, and conceptual parallels between Martyr Theology and
Paul's conception of Jesus's death. Even if scholars disagree with
Williams's thesis or methodology, serious Pauline scholars
interested in the background influences behind and the nature and s
Jarvis J. Williams argues that the Jewish martyrological ideas,
codified in 2 and 4 Maccabees and in selected texts in LXX Daniel
3, provide an important background to understanding Paul's
statements about the cursed Christ in Gal. 3.13, and the
soteriological benefits that his death achieves for Jews and
Gentiles in Galatians. Williams further argues that Paul modifies
Jewish martyrology to fit his exegetical, polemical, and
theological purposes, in order to persuade the Galatians not to
embrace the 'other' gospel of their opponents. In addition to
providing a detailed and up to date history of research on the
scholarship of Gal. 3.13, Williams provides five arguments
throughout this volume related to the scriptural, theological and
conceptual, lexical, grammatical and polemical points of contact,
and finally the discontinuities between Galatians and Jewish
martyrological ideas. Drawing on literature from Second Temple
traditions to directly compare with Gal. 3.13, Williams adds new
insights to Paul's defense of his Torah-free-gentile-inclusive
gospel, and his rhetoric against his opponents.
What should the Christian life look like? What vision does
Scripture cast for living as a follower of Christ? The New
Testament scholar Jarvis Williams considers how Paul's letter to
the Galatians can inform our understanding of the Christian life
here and now as well as into eternity. What emerges from this
careful study is a multifaceted vision of God's saving action in
Jesus Christ for both Jew and Gentile, in both the vertical
relationship between God and humanity as well as the horizontal
relationships among people-with cosmic ramifications. Through
Paul's instructions and Williams's interpretation, Christians can
learn the importance of walking by the Spirit.
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