David Lincicum, Ruth Sheridan, and Charles M. Stang have compiled and edited an interesting collection of 11 essays on the unresolved tensions between law and lawlessness in the formative centuries of postbiblical Judaism and early Christianity. These essays were originally presented at the “Lautenschlaeger Colloquium on Law and Lawlessness in early Judaism and Christianity,” which met at Mansfield College, Oxford, August 5–7, 2015. The aim of the essays is “to bring to the fore the legalistic and antinomian dimensions in both traditions, with a variety of contributions that examine the formative centuries of these two great religions and their legal traditions. They explore how law and lawlessness are in tension throughout this early, formative period, and not finally resolved in one direction or the other” (p. 1). The volume has three indexes: ancient sources, authors, and subjects.
The first two essays address aspects of postbiblical Judaism. Lutz Doering of the...
