Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

The General Epistles and Revelation Representative of the more irenic end of the spectrum are the “general” or “catholic” epistl ...

major means of identity formation is to confer on its Gentile readers the prestige of Israel’s sacred rites and institutions. Th ...

and promise-and-fulfillment exegesis of the Scriptures. His acquaintance with Jewish tradition seems to be pure book learning. A ...

tribes of Israel (7:4-8; 21:12). The apocalyptic visions in chapters 4–22 — the bulk of the book — do not mention Jews or attack ...

may have in mind the leaders of his own and other largely Gentile commu- nities who accept Jesus as the messiah. This acceptance ...

(Acts 21:27-31). Soon after, more than forty Jews swear an oath to assassi- nate him (23:12-15). At the end of Acts, the leaders ...

synagogues” and having Jesus speak of “yourLaw” when debating with Pharisees. He also darkens the Markan portrait of the Pharise ...

marks of Jewish identity such as Torah, Temple, Sabbath, and Festivals. But in John Jesus fulfills and replaces these key instit ...

finds him and elicits faith in himself as the Son of Man, the fellow replies, “ ‘Lord, I believe.’ And he worshiped him” (9:38). ...

inclusive tendencies of Jesus’ ministry, the Law-free gospel of Paul and other Hellenist believers, and the high Christology evi ...

“Jewish-Christian” loosely to describe Christian writings that draw exten- sively on Jewish scripture and tradition, regardless ...

Jerome had scholarly exchanges with learned Jews, and several patristic sources gladly incorporate Jewish exegetical and haggadi ...

Becker, Adam H., and Annette Yoshiko Reeds, eds. 2003.The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the ...

Meier, John P. 1991-2009.A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus.4 vols. New Haven: Yale University Press. Murray, Miche ...

Early Judaism and Rabbinic Judaism Lawrence H. Schiffman One of the central issues of the history of Judaism is the periodizatio ...

fell into the hands of the talmudic rabbis in its entirety: Ben Sira. Beyond that, they did not have, or perhaps did not want to ...

therefore to read, any books other than those of Scripture. On the other hand, the prohibition may have extended only to the pub ...

rabbinic polemics against heterodoxy, termedderek aFeret.But these prac- tices are too few to indicate any kind of real knowledg ...

Jewish Law Qumran sectarian law was characterized by a clear distinction between the “revealed law” — that is, the written Torah ...

the Bible and even allow us to determine their biblical midrashic basis from their phraseology. When we come to the actual subje ...