Jewish And Christian Scriptures

Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300164107

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From Jesus to Christ by Paula Fredriksen Pdf

"Magisterial. . . . A learned, brilliant and enjoyable study."—Géza Vermès, Times Literary Supplement In this exciting book, Paula Fredriksen explains the variety of New Testament images of Jesus by exploring the ways that the new Christian communities interpreted his mission and message in light of the delay of the Kingdom he had preached. This edition includes an introduction reviews the most recent scholarship on Jesus and its implications for both history and theology. "Brilliant and lucidly written, full of original and fascinating insights."—Reginald H. Fuller, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "This is a first-rate work of a first-rate historian."—James D. Tabor, Journal of Religion "Fredriksen confronts her documents—principally the writings of the New Testament—as an archaeologist would an especially rich complex site. With great care she distinguishes the literary images from historical fact. As she does so, she explains the images of Jesus in terms of the strategies and purposes of the writers Paul, Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John."—Thomas D’Evelyn, Christian Science Monitor

Author : Mordechai Z. Cohen,Adele Berlin
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-06
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107065680

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Interpreting Scriptures in Judaism, Christianity and Islam by Mordechai Z. Cohen,Adele Berlin Pdf

B The ''letter'' / historical events - reassessments

Author : Rabbi Barry Rubin
Publisher : Hendrickson Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 1619708698

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The Complete Jewish Study Bible by Rabbi Barry Rubin Pdf

Christians and Messianic Jews who are interested in the rich spiritual traditions of their faith will be thrilled with this brand new study Bible. The Complete Jewish Study Bible pairs the updated text of the Complete Jewish Bible translation with extra study material, to help readers understand and connect with the Jewish roots of the Christian faith. The Complete Jewish Bible shows that the word of God, from Genesis to Revelation, is a unified Jewish book meant for everyone Jew and non- Jew alike. Translated by David H. Stern with new, updated introductions by Rabbi Barry Rubin, it has been a best-seller for over twenty years. This translation, combined with beautiful, modern design and helpful features, makes this an exquisite, one-of-a-kind Bible. Unique to The Complete Jewish Study Bible are a number of helpful articles and notes to aid the reader in understanding the Jewish context for the Scriptures, both in the Tanakh (the Old Testament) and the B rit Hadashah (the New Testament). Features include: - Twenty-five contributors (both Jewish and Christian), including John Fischer, Patrice Fischer, Arnold G. Fruchtenbaum, Walter C. Kaiser, Jr., Rabbi Russell Resnik, and more - Thirty-four topical articles ranging from topics such as the menorah (or candelabra of God ) and repentance (t shuvah) in the Bible, to Yeshua s Sermon on the Mount and the Noachide Laws (the laws given by God to Noah and subsequent generations) and their applicability to Gentiles - In addition to these topical articles and detailed study notes, there are twelve tracks or themes running throughout the Bible with 117 articles, covering topics such as Jewish Customs, the Names of God, Shabbat, and the Torah - New Bible book introductions, written from a Jewish perspective - Bottom-of-page notes to help readers understand the deeper meanings behind the Jewish text - Sabbath and Holy Day Scripture readings - Offers the original Hebrew names for people, places, and concepts "

Author : Jack Miles
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1996-03-19
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780679743682

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God: A Biography by Jack Miles Pdf

WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE What sort of "person" is God? What is his "life story"? Is it possible to approach him not as an object of religious reverence, but as the protagonist of the world's greatest book—as a character who possesses all the depths, contradictions, and abiguities of a Hamlet? This is the task that Jack Miles—a former Jesuit trained in religious studies and Near Eastern languages—accomplishes with such brilliance and originality in God: A Biography. Using the Hebrew Bible as his text, Miles shows us a God who evolves through his relationship with man, the image who in time becomes his rival. Here is the Creator who nearly destroys his chief creation; the bloodthirsty warrior and the protector of the downtrodden; the lawless law-giver; the scourge and the penitent. Profoundly learned, stylishly written, the resulting work illuminates God and man alike and returns us to the Bible with a sense of discovery and wonder.

Author : Amy-Jill Levine,Marc Zvi Brettler
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780062560179

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The Bible With and Without Jesus by Amy-Jill Levine,Marc Zvi Brettler Pdf

The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament show how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts – including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms – differently. Exploring and explaining these diverse perspectives, they reveal more clearly Scripture’s beauty and power. Esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler take readers on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible passages quoted in the New Testament to show what the texts meant in their original contexts and then how Jews and Christians, over time, understood those same texts. Passages include the creation of the world, the role of Adam and Eve, the Suffering Servant of Isiah, the book of Jonah, and Psalm 22, whose words, “My God, my God, why have you forsaken me,” Jesus quotes as he dies on the cross. Comparing various interpretations – historical, literary, and theological - of each ancient text, Levine and Brettler offer deeper understandings of the original narratives and their many afterlives. They show how the text speaks to different generations under changed circumstances, and so illuminate the Bible’s ongoing significance. By understanding the depth and variety by which these passages have been, and can be, understood, The Bible With and Without Jesus does more than enhance our religious understandings, it helps us to see the Bible as a source of inspiration for any and all readers.

Author : John J. Collins,Craig A. Evans,Lee Martin McDonald
Publisher : Westminster John Knox Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2020-08-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781611649826

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Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures by John J. Collins,Craig A. Evans,Lee Martin McDonald Pdf

Ancient Jewish and Christian Scriptures examines the writings included in and excluded from the Jewish and Christian canons of Scripture and explores the social settings in which some of this literature was viewed as authoritative and some was viewed either as uninspired or as heretical. John J. Collins, Craig A. Evans, and Lee Martin McDonald examine how those noncanonical writings demonstrate the historical, literary, and religious aspects of the culture that gave rise to the writings. They also show how literature excluded from the Jewish and Christian canons of Scripture remains valuable today for understanding the questions and conflicts that early Jewish and Christian faith communities faced. Through this discussion, contemporary readers acquire a broader understanding of biblical Scripture and of Jewish and Christian faith inspired by Scripture.

Author : Catholic Church. Pontificia Commissio Biblica
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Bibles
ISBN : STANFORD:36105029903908

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The Jewish People and Their Sacred Scriptures in the Christian Bible by Catholic Church. Pontificia Commissio Biblica Pdf

Author : Michal Bar-Asher Siegal
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Bibles
ISBN : 9781107195363

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Jewish-Christian Dialogues on Scripture in Late Antiquity by Michal Bar-Asher Siegal Pdf

Marshalling previously untapped Christian materials, Bar-Asher Siegal offers radically new insights into Talmudic stories about Scriptural debates with Christian heretics.

Author : Benjamin D. Sommer
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9780814740620

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Jewish Concepts of Scripture by Benjamin D. Sommer Pdf

What do Jews think scripture is? How do the People of the Book conceive of the Book of Books? In what ways is it authoritative? Who has the right to interpret it? Is it divinely or humanly written? And have Jews always thought about the Bible in the same way? In seventeen cohesive and rigorously researched essays, this volume traces the way some of the most important Jewish thinkers throughout history have addressed these questions from the rabbinic era through the medieval Islamic world to modern Jewish scholarship. They address why different Jewish thinkers, writers, and communities have turned to the Bible—and what they expect to get from it. Ultimately, argues editor Benjamin D. Sommer, in understanding the ways Jews construct scripture, we begin to understand the ways Jews construct themselves.

Author : Robert Henry Charles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1902
Category : Religion
ISBN : PRNC:32101073420778

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The Book of Jubilees by Robert Henry Charles Pdf

Author : John Barton
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2019-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780698191587

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A History of the Bible by John Barton Pdf

A literary history of our most influential book of all time, by an Oxford scholar and Anglican priest In our culture, the Bible is monolithic: It is a collection of books that has been unchanged and unchallenged since the earliest days of the Christian church. The idea of the Bible as "Holy Scripture," a non-negotiable authority straight from God, has prevailed in Western society for some time. And while it provides a firm foundation for centuries of Christian teaching, it denies the depth, variety, and richness of this fascinating text. In A History of the Bible, John Barton argues that the Bible is not a prescription to a complete, fixed religious system, but rather a product of a long and intriguing process, which has inspired Judaism and Christianity, but still does not describe the whole of either religion. Barton shows how the Bible is indeed an important source of religious insight for Jews and Christians alike, yet argues that it must be read in its historical context--from its beginnings in myth and folklore to its many interpretations throughout the centuries. It is a book full of narratives, laws, proverbs, prophecies, poems, and letters, each with their own character and origin stories. Barton explains how and by whom these disparate pieces were written, how they were canonized (and which ones weren't), and how they were assembled, disseminated, and interpreted around the world--and, importantly, to what effect. Ultimately, A History of the Bible argues that a thorough understanding of the history and context of its writing encourages religious communities to move away from the Bible's literal wording--which is impossible to determine--and focus instead on the broader meanings of scripture.

Author : Paul Matthews Van Buren
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0819199702

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A Theology of the Jewish-Christian Reality by Paul Matthews Van Buren Pdf

This is the first, and most referred to, Christian systemic theology to make clear for the Church the relevance of the continuing existence of the Jewish people to every aspect of its theology. The three volumes set out to correct a major and central deficiency in the field: that the continuing existence of Israel, the people of God and the people of Jesus, whose ancestors produced by far the largest part of the Church's Bible, and who have lived by the covenant of those Scriptures through the ages, has been either ignored or treated negatively. A Theology of the Jewish-Christian Reality continues to stimulate fresh thinking about the foundations for responsible theological reflection. This second volume makes an original contribution to the Church's theology by drawing on the insights and discoveries of Jewish thought and life. Van Buren argues that God's election of the Jewish people as his witnesses remains in force and calls the Church to listen to that witness. ^IOriginally published in 1983 by Harper and Row Publishers.

Author : Karin Hedner Zetterholm
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800697983

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Jewish Interpretation of the Bible by Karin Hedner Zetterholm Pdf

Although Jewish tradition gives tremendous importance to the Hebrew Bible, from the beginning Jewish interpretation of those scriptures has been practiced with remarkable freedom. Karin Hedner Zetterholm offers a clear and concise introduction to the legal, theological, and historical presuppositions that shaped the dominant stream of rabbinic interpretation, including Mishnah, Talmud, and Midrashim, discussing specific examples of different interpretive methods. She then explores the contours of Jewish biblical interpretation evident in the New Testament and the legacy of ancient traditions in the way different Jewish movements read the Bible today. Students of the history of biblical interpretation and of Judaism will find this an important and engaging resource.

Author : David W. Chapman
Publisher : Baker Academic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0801039053

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Ancient Jewish and Christian Perceptions of Crucifixion by David W. Chapman Pdf

This thorough study covers all the primary data on how early Jews and Christians perceived crucifixion. The author examines Second Temple and early rabbinic literature and material remains to demonstrate the range of ancient Jewish perceptions. He also surveys ancient Jewish historical accounts of crucifixion, magical literature, and the proverbial use of crucifixion imagery. The volume pays special attention to Jewish interpretations of key Old Testament texts and early Christian literature that reflects on Jewish perceptions of the cross in antiquity. Originally published by Mohr Siebeck and now available as an affordable North American paperback edition, the book provides indispensable background for scholarly work on the death of Jesus.

Author : Melody D. Knowles
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780800638429

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Contesting Texts by Melody D. Knowles Pdf

Themes explored include: biblical authority, texts ofviolence, tradition, identity and the other, common hope. Contributors include: David Novak, Barbara Rossing, StevenWeitzman, Hindy Naiman, Ralph Klein, Barbara Bowe, LarryEdwards, Sarah Tanzer, Walter Brueggemann, Susan BrooksThistlethwaite, and David Sandmel.