Is there a resource in Logos that has marked or otherwise annotated which laws on the Pentateuch are moral, ceremonial, and civil, or otherwise denoting which laws apply to Christians today?
I'm not aware of such - for the "bigger discussion" you may want to look into http://www.logos.com/product/16624/five-views-on-law-and-gospel
The closest I have is AYBD (Anchor Yale Bible Dictionary) which I found by searching Entire Library for:-
"ceremonial laws", "moral laws", "civil laws"
with "Match all word forms"
Pentateuch...laws apply to Christians today?
This topic has been hotly debated for centuries, so if you do not find anything in your Logos library, you might Google the Internet too.
Matt 5:18 [;)]
I know, I know. I'm not really trying to start anything.
Is there a resource in Logos that has marked or otherwise annotated which laws on the Pentateuch are moral, ceremonial, and civil...
This is no such distinction.
You might try looking at the laws which are for indicated as both for the Jews and the "strangers" or "foreigners among you", The Jerusalem Council in Acts 15 seems to have leveraged this fact that some laws were more inclusive than others. There are detailed discussions of the exegetical work done by the council in R. Bauckham's "James and the Jerusalem Church," in R. Bauckham ed., The Book of Acts in its Palestinian Setting and "James and the Gentiles (Acts 15.13-21)," chapter 7 in B. Witherington III ed., History, Literature and Society in the Book of Acts. Neither resource is in Logos, but the discussions should provide a nice framework for some searches and further reading.
It's ALL Torah. [H]
But if you're a Gentile, very little of it applies to you, and if you're a Jew, very little of it applies to you if you don't live in the Promised Land with a Temple under a Levitical Priesthood.
This is definitely a question that could spark a lively and interesting theological debate!
Let's not do that.
You asked for resources in Logos that can help you answer your question.
IMHO, the question is related to the nature and extent of the relationship between the Old (Mosaic) vs. the New Covenant (in Christ's blood). There is an extend article on the New Covenant in the Baker Encyclopedia of the Bible (if you have that resource). You may want to investigate other resources you trust that discuss the interrelation of the two covenants. One also must deal with passages such as Rom. 6:14, Gal. 2:21, 3:25 (in context please!), I advise looking at trusted commentaries that discuss these.One might also want to investigate the particular words used in the Pentateuch that are sometimes translated "law" but which are more nuanced than that. "Torah," is only one of those words. There may be some hints there as to how to understand some of the Pentateuch regulations.
Minimally, one might look for those laws in the Pentateuch that are echoed in the NT, either when quoted directly, or indirectly in the various places that recommend certain actions, or prohibit others, as in the various lists of virtues and vices (Gal. 5:19,ff, e.g.).Finally, and I realize this is a debatable point, and I offer it for your consideration (not for debate here, please!), the letter to the Gentile churches in Acts 15 seems significant. Consider this letter in its historical and ecclesial context, and look carefully at commentators you trust.
Once again, let me reiterate that this is not a place to debate such things. I have a view, and probably expressed it in some of my suggestions above. I assume you have a view, too. If you restrict yourself to suggesting study methods and resources (which was the request), I believe we can keep this within the guidelines of this forum.
I'm not trying to turn this into a discussion. I'm not interested in hermeneutical guidelines either.
What I'm looking for is someone who has gone through the whole Pentateuch and marked some laws "applicable for today" and other laws "not applicable for today." If that person holds to the threefold division of the law and denoted it that way, so be it. If not, I don't really care. I am looking for any person's attempt at it. At this point, I don't even care if they do that good of a job of it.
Yes, there are tons of books defending or disputing the threefold division of the law, how to determine which laws apply, etc. But has anyone actually taken those guidelines to heart and actually applied it to each and every law in the Pentateuch? I would think so, but I know of no resource, in Logos or print, that does it.
I'm not trying to turn this into a discussion. I'm not interested in hermeneutical guidelines either. What I'm looking for is someone who has gone through the whole Pentateuch and marked some laws "applicable for today" and other laws "not applicable for today." If that person holds to the threefold division of the law and denoted it that way, so be it. If not, I don't really care. I am looking for any person's attempt at it. At this point, I don't even care if they do that good of a job of it. Yes, there are tons of books defending or disputing the threefold division of the law, how to determine which laws apply, etc. But has anyone actually taken those guidelines to heart and actually applied it to each and every law in the Pentateuch? I would think so, but I know of no resource, in Logos or print, that does it.
Well, first of all it seems to me that you have to decide whose enumeration/listing of the laws you want to use. The Jewish count of 613 (248 positive and 365 negative) probably includes as "laws" things that many readers of the Pentateuch would not consider to be "laws/commandments/mitzvot," but rather derived or interpreted from the explicit text.
John Sailhamer in his book The Pentateuch As Narrative has an enumeration of all these laws in an appendix. http://www.amazon.com/Pentateuch-Narrative-Biblical-Theological-Commentary/dp/0310574218 Per the preview at Amazon of the Table of Contents, see "Appendix: Summary of Maimonides' List of Laws in the Torah" and you can view many of the pages of his listing there. Get the book and do your own classification.
The Jewish count of 613 (248 positive and 365 negative) probably includes as "laws" things that many readers of the Pentateuch would not consider to be "laws/commandments/mitzvot," but rather derived or interpreted from the explicit text. John Sailhamer in his book The Pentateuch As Narrative has an enumeration of all these laws in an appendix. http://www.amazon.com/Pentateuch-Narrative-Biblical-Theological-Commentary/dp/0310574218 Per the preview at Amazon of the Table of Contents, see "Appendix: Summary of Maimonides' List of Laws in the Torah" and you can view many of the pages of his listing there.
The Jewish count of 613 (248 positive and 365 negative) probably includes as "laws" things that many readers of the Pentateuch would not consider to be "laws/commandments/mitzvot," but rather derived or interpreted from the explicit text.
John Sailhamer in his book The Pentateuch As Narrative has an enumeration of all these laws in an appendix. http://www.amazon.com/Pentateuch-Narrative-Biblical-Theological-Commentary/dp/0310574218 Per the preview at Amazon of the Table of Contents, see "Appendix: Summary of Maimonides' List of Laws in the Torah" and you can view many of the pages of his listing there.
I have a PB of Maimonides' list, made from Wikipedia. I can post it if someone wants it.
That would be great. [:)]
3730.The 613 mitzvot acc. to Maimonides.docx
Peace, fgh! *smile*
Thank you! Looking forward to studying this extremely interesting document! Your "sharing" is much appreciated!
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