TY - BOOK AU - Deines,Roland AU - Ochs,Christoph AU - Watts,Peter TI - Acts of God in History: studies towards recovering a theological historiography T2 - Wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen zum Neuen Testament, SN - 9783161521812 (hardcover) U1 - 261.5 23 PY - 2013/// CY - Germany PB - Mohr Siebeck KW - Bible KW - New Testament KW - Hermeneutics KW - God (Christianity) KW - Christian sociology KW - Historiography KW - History KW - Religious aspects KW - Christianity KW - Theology N1 - 10 of 11 contributions were published previously (4 in German, 6 in English); Includes bibliographical references and indexes; God's role in history as a methodological problem for exegesis -- The social profile of the Pharisees -- Jesus the Galilean: questioning the function of Galilee in recent Jesus research -- Jesus and the Jewish traditions of His time -- The Apostolic Decree: halakhah for Gentile Christians or concession to Jewish taboos? -- How long? God's revealed schedule for salvation and the outbreak of the Bar Kokhba revolt -- Biblical viewpoints on repentance, conversion, and turning to God -- The term and concept of Scripture -- The recognition of God's acts in history in the Gospel of Matthew: an exercise in salvation history -- Can the "real" Jesus be identified with the historical Jesus? Joseph Ratzinger's (Pope Benedict XVI) challenge to biblical scholarship -- Pre-existence, incarnation, and messianic self-understanding of Jesus in the work of Martin Hengel ER -