Cover -- Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- ABBREVIATIONS -- 1 INTRODUCTION -- The current debate -- New creature -- New creation -- New community -- Method and sources -- PART I New creation: central Jewish texts -- 2 NEW CREATION IN THE JEWISH SCRIPTURES: AN OVERVIEW -- Isaiah 40-55: a new exodus -- Creation and redemption -- New creation and second exodus -- The "former" and the "new" -- Isaiah 65 and 66: a new heaven and new earth -- Jeremiah: a new covenant -- Israel's wicked heart -- Israel's "organized hypocrisy" -- The plight and the solution -- Ezekiel: a new heart and a new spirit -- Israel's adulterous heart -- Israel's hardened heart -- The plight and the solution -- Summary and conclusions -- 3 NEW CREATION IN APOCALYPTIC JUDAISM: JUBILEES -- Jubilees: a case study -- Jubilees as apocalyptic -- Divine disclosure and the decoding of history -- Apology and historiography -- Hope and despair -- New creation -- Central texts -- A thematic synopsis of Jubilees 1.7-29 and 23.11-32 -- Sin, Satan, and the Gentiles -- New creation: anthropological renewal -- Moral renovation -- Physical rejuvenation -- New creation: cosmological transformation -- New creation: restoration and reversal -- Eschatology and the apocalyptic paradigm -- New creation and the apocalyptic paradigm -- Summary and conclusions -- 4 NEW CREATION IN DIASPORA JUDAISM: JOSEPH AND ASENETH -- Plot summary -- Language, date, provenance, and character -- Purpose and theme -- New creation -- Joseph and Aseneth 8.9: translation and structure -- Strophes A and B: analysis and interpretation -- Strophe C: analysis and interpretation -- Excursus: honey in the conversion cycle -- Strophe D: analysis and interpretation -- Summary and conclusions -- Summary of part I.

PART II From death to life: new creation in the contours of Paul's thought -- 5 FROM DEATH TO LIFE: INSIGHTS FROM CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY -- Rites of passage -- The work of Arnold van Gennep -- Death and life -- Transformation -- Ritual suffering -- Empowerment -- Demarcation -- Betwixt and between -- The cosmic simile -- Excursus: Paul and new birth -- Interpreting religious symbolism -- Summary and conclusions -- 6 NEWNESS OF LIFE: ROMANS 6.1-11 -- Context -- Structure -- Death to sin -- The subjects of death -- "We" -- The old person -- Newness of life -- Summary -- 7 NEWNESS OF THE SPIRIT: ROMANS 7.1-6 -- Context -- Structure -- The law, the flesh, sin, and death -- Newness of the Spirit, oldness of the letter -- The meaning of the letter-Spirit antithesis -- The origin of the Letter-Spirit antithesis -- Summary -- 8 SPIRIT, NEWNESS, LIFE: THE PAULINE ANTECEDENTS -- The Pauline antecedents -- The Spirit and the eschaton -- The Spirit and life -- The Pauline connection -- The promised Spirit -- The Spirit of life -- Summary -- 9 CRUCIFIED WITH CHRIST: GALATIANS 2.19-20 -- Context -- Dying and living -- Paul's emphatic "I" -- The love of Christ -- Summary of part II -- PART III The old and the new: new creation in the context of Paul's letters -- 10 IF ANYONE BE IN CHRIST: 2 CORINTHIANS 5.17 -- The literary context of 2 Corinthians 5.11-21 -- The literary tone of 2 Corinthians 2.14-7.4 -- The salvation-historical context of 2 Corinthians 2.14-7.4 -- 2 Corinthians 1.21-22 -- 2 Corinthians 5.5 -- The programmatic character of the introductory thanksgiving (2.14-17) -- Paul's sufficiency and the Corinthian complaint -- Identifying Paul's "opponents" -- Paul's spoken message in 2.17d -- Paul's spoken message in 1 Corinthians 1-4 -- Paul's spoken message in 2 Corinthians 10-13 -- Paul's spoken message in 2 Corinthians 3-4 -- Summary.

Paul's New Covenant retrospective -- The theological antecedents of Paul's argument: Jeremiah and Ezekiel -- The New Covenant antitheses of 2 Corinthians 2-7 -- Interiority and Covenant -- From life to life: the motif of transformation -- Spirit and life -- Image and glory -- 2 Corinthians 3.18 -- 2 Corinthians 4.4, 6 -- Summary -- Persuasion, madness, and the ambassador for Christ -- Paul's ministry of… -- The complaint of Paul's… -- New creation -- Conclusions and corollaries -- New creation and the Spirit -- Interiority, Covenant, and new creation -- Adam, image, and new creation -- The social function of new creation in 2 Corinthians 5.17 -- 11 NEITHER CIRCUMCISION NOR UNCIRCUMCISION: GALATIANS 6.15 -- Galatians: recent issues in interpretation -- Galatians 6.12-18 in epistolary and rhetorical perspective -- Paul as paradigm (Galatians 1 and 2) -- Paul's "biography of reversal" -- Appearance versus reality -- Summary -- Faith and the Spirit: redefining the people of God (Gal. 3.1-5.12) -- The decisive question… -- The decisive evidence: the Spirit -- The blessing, the inheritance, the promise, and the Spirit -- Children, heirs, the Spirit and the covenants -- The Spirit and the flesh (Gal. 5.13-6.10) -- Summary -- New creation -- Excursus: boasting in Paul and Jeremiah -- …in the argument of Galatians -- …and the Spirit -- …and interiority -- …and new birth -- …and death-life symbolism -- Conclusions and corollaries -- Galatians 6.15 and the motif of transformation -- …and the crucified cosmos -- …and the Gentile mission -- Galatians 6.15 and 2 Cor. 5.17 -- 12 SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS -- New creation in the context of Paul's letters and the contours of his thought -- From death to life -- The Spirit and the flesh -- Interiority and covenant -- New creation: antecedents and analogies -- An analogical versus a history-of-traditions methodology.

Jubilees and Joseph and Aseneth -- Paul and apocalyptic -- New creation and conversion -- REFERENCES -- INDEX OF PASSAGES CITED -- INDEX OF MODERN AUTHORS.

Moyer. V. Hubbard offers a full investigation of St Paul's understanding of 'new life' and 'new creation'.

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