Covenant and the People of God

Essays in Honor of Mark S. Kinzer

Jonathan Kaplan, Jennifer M. Rosner, David J. Rudolph, Jonathan Kaplan, Jennifer M. Rosner, David J. Rudolph

• Publisher: Pickwick Publications
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781666732436
  9781666726152
• eBook ISBN:
  9781666726169
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Biblical Studies

Covenant and the People of God gathers twenty-four essays from friends and colleagues of Messianic Jewish theologian and New Testament scholar Mark S. Kinzer, in honor of his seventieth birthday. The essays are organized around two central themes that have animated Kinzer's work: the nature of the covenant and what it means to be the people of God. The volume includes fascinating discussions of some of the most sensitive areas related to Jewish-Christian dialogue, post-supersessionist interpretation of Scripture, and the theological shape of Messianic Judaism. Among the contributors are scholars working in North America, Europe, and Israel. They include: Gabriele Boccaccini, Douglas A. Campbell, Holly Taylor Coolman, Gavin D'Costa, Jean-Miguel Garrigues, Douglas Harink, Richard Harvey, Vered Hillel, Jonathan Kaplan, Daniel Keating, Amy-Jill Levine, Antoine Levy, Gerald McDermott, Michael C. Mulder, David M. Neuhaus, Isaac W. Oliver, Ephraim Radner, Jennifer M. Rosner, David J. Rudolph, Thomas Schumacher, Faydra L. Shapiro, R. Kendall Soulen, Lee B. Spitzer, and Etienne Veto.

Table of contents

• Title Page
• List of Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Paul’s Non-Supersessionist Theology
• Chapter 2: “What God Has Joined Together . . .”
• Chapter 3: Jewish Church
• Chapter 4: Hebrew Catholics
• Chapter 5: Does the Permanence of Israel’s Election Today Contradict the Universality of Salvation through Jesus?139
• Chapter 6: Accountabilities, Tensions, Transformations with Lou Martyn and Mark Kinzer on a Theological Journey
• Chapter 7: “An English Jewish Christian Heart”
• Chapter 8: The Parable of the Vineyard in Mark 12:1–12 as Contested Authority
• Chapter 9: The Book of Jonah, Non-Israelites, and the Limits of the Covenant
• Chapter 10: An Exchange of Gifts
• Chapter 11: “Out of the Mouths of Infants”
• Chapter 12: Bilateral Ecclesiology and Three-Dimensionality of the People of God
• Chapter 13: Is Supersessionism the Source of Race?
• Chapter 14: “Children of Promise, like Isaac”
• Chapter 15: Torah as Gospel
• Chapter 16: One Body, Two Restored Peoples
• Chapter 17: Anima Mundi, Anima Populorum
• Chapter 18: The Land in Messianic Context
• Chapter 19: Describing the Church in Relation to Israel
• Chapter 20: The Addressees of Ephesians and the Question of the Distinction between Jews and Gentiles
• Chapter 21: Blessing on the New Wine
• Chapter 22: Israel and the Nations in the Time of Preparation
• Chapter 23: Covenant Partners
• Chapter 24: Thomas Aquinas on “Salvation is from the Jews” (John 4:22)
• Bibliography