Concept of Spirit: A Study of Pneuma in Hellenistic Judaism and its Bearing on the New Testament

Title Page......Page 1
Preface......Page 5
Contents......Page 7
Texts and Translations......Page 11
Abbreviations......Page 13
Part One: The Concept of Spirit in Hellenistic Judaism......Page 15
What is Hellenistic Judaism?......Page 17
Purpose......Page 22
Where ruach is not translated πνευμα......Page 26
Where πνευμα is introduced into the text......Page 28
The introduction of Hebrew ideas of ruach into the pagan Greek concept of πνευμα......Page 31
Πνευμα and the Divine......Page 34
Transcendence and immanence......Page 42
God's holy nature and the existence of evil......Page 47
Πνευμα -- one of the components of man......Page 51
Πνευμα and soul......Page 52
Πνευμα and mind......Page 54
Πνευμα and conscience......Page 57
Πνευμα and the creation of the cosmos......Page 59
Πνευμα and revelation......Page 61
The problem......Page 75
Is πνευμα always πνευμα θεου?......Page 76
Conclusions......Page 80
Part Two: Spirit in the New Testament......Page 81
The New Testament -- a Greek work......Page 83
Literary dependence or common milieu?......Page 84
Πνευμα -- an anthropological or a theological term?......Page 88
The relationship between anthropology and theology......Page 96
Πνευμα as an eschatological category in contemporary Judaism......Page 100
Πνευμα and the eschatological community......Page 104
Spirits -- holy and unholy......Page 114
The spirit of Christ......Page 131
Πνευμα and the Christian hermeneutic......Page 142
Πνευμα and the wisdom of God......Page 153
Πνευμα and the historical Jesus......Page 157
Πνευμα is predominantly a theological concept......Page 161
Πνευμα is a term used in anti-Jewish polemic......Page 162
The pneumatology of the N.T. is indebted to the figure of wisdom in Hellenistic Judaism......Page 163
Appendices......Page 165
Appendix A. The Literature of Hellenistic Judaism which has survived in whole or part......Page 167
Appendix B. A Classification of the various occurrences of πνευμα in the Literature of Hellenistic Judaism......Page 170
Appendix C. The Distribution of Πνευμα and Cognates in the N.T.......Page 173
Appendix D. A Classification of the various occurrences of Πνευμα in the New Testament......Page 174
Appendix E. Additional references to Πνευμα in the Western Text (Codex Bezae) of Acts......Page 177
Bibliography......Page 179
Index of Authors......Page 191
Untitled......Page 195