Light Among the Gentiles by McKnight, Scot -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Contents Acknowledgments Introduction

Previous Approaches The Focus of This Study Defining Terms The Context The Procedure

1. Judaism and the Gentile

Jewish Attitudes toward Gentiles

Integrating Tendencies Resistance Tendencies

Conclusions

2. Judaism and Proselytes

Favorable Attitudes toward Proselytes

Judaism and the Proselyte Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha Qumran Literature Philo Josephus Rabbinic Literature

Unfavorable Attitudes toward Proselytes and Proselytism

Philo Rabbinical Evidence

Conclusions

3. The Methods of Proselytizing

Eight Methods of Proselytizing

God's Intervention Jewish Missionaries through Evangelism Literature The Synagogue as an Institution for Proselytizing Education Good Deeds Various Means Force

The Propaganda Techniques of Philo and Josephus

Philo Josephus

Is Rome an Exception? Conclusions

4. The Requirements for Proselytes

Circumcision Baptism Sacrifice Others Conclusions

5. Levels of Adherence to Judaism

General Philo Josephus Rabbinic Statements Conclusions

6. Jewish Missionary Activity in the New Testament

Earliest Christian Traditions Pauline Corpus Matthew and His Tradition Lukan Writings

Groups Missionary Activity Summary of Results for Acts

Conclusions

Conclusions Abbreviations Notes

Introduction Chapter 1 Chapter 2 Chapter 3 Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Chapter 6

Select Bibliography Index

Subjects Authors Passages

Back Cover

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