Jewish Christians And Judaism

Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780300240740

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When Christians Were Jews by Paula Fredriksen Pdf

A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religion How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy—“The Kingdom of God is at hand!”—they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.

Author : Walter Ziffer
Publisher : Author House
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2006-06-07
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781467816229

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The Birth of Christianity from the Matrix of Judaism by Walter Ziffer Pdf

The book presents the essential information necessary for understanding how Christianity developed from being a Jewish sect to becoming an independent religion. While religious differences played an important role in the separation of Jews and Christians in the first and second centuries of the Common Era, there were also political, social and economic factors at work that contributed to the parting of the ways of these two groups. An effort was made to keep technical jargon to a minimum in this work. Thus we have here a book that is easily understood and yet scientifically sound. Footnotes should help steer the interested reader toward more specialized treatments of this or that sub-theme. In the end it is hoped that the book will be a stepping stone toward a more respectful and creative partnership between Christians and Jews in the neverending task of tikkun olam, the healing of our ailing world.

Author : Marcel Poorthuis,Joshua Jay Schwartz,Joseph Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004171503

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Interaction Between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art, and Literature by Marcel Poorthuis,Joshua Jay Schwartz,Joseph Turner Pdf

This volume contains essays dealing with complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity, taking a bold step, assuming that no historical period can be excluded from the interactive process between Judaism and Christianity, conscious or unconscious, as either rejection or appropriation

Author : Annette Yoshiko Reed
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-12
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783161544767

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Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism by Annette Yoshiko Reed Pdf

"Jewish-Christianity" is a contested category in current research. But for precisely this reason, it may offer a powerful lens through which to rethink the history of Jewish/Christian relations. Traditionally, Jewish-Christianity has been studied as part of the origins and early diversity of Christianity. Collecting revised versions of previously published articles together with new materials, Annette Yoshiko Reed reconsiders Jewish-Christianity in the context of Late Antiquity and in conversation with Jewish studies. She brings further attention to understudied texts and traditions from Late Antiquity that do not fit neatly into present day notions of Christianity as distinct from Judaism. In the process, she uses these materials to probe the power and limits of our modern assumptions about religion and identity.

Author : David Berger,Michael Wyschogrod
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Religion
ISBN : IND:39000003078859

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Jews and "Jewish Christianity" by David Berger,Michael Wyschogrod Pdf

Author : James H. Charlesworth,Frank X. Blisard,Jeffrey S. Siker
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015018819220

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Jews and Christians by James H. Charlesworth,Frank X. Blisard,Jeffrey S. Siker Pdf

This book records the reflections and dialogue of nine distinguished scholars, who by exploring past and present relationships between Christians and Jews, are enhancing the search for new means of communication and the development of a future in which Jewish-christian bonds are stronger and closer.

Author : Elisheva Carlebach,Jacob J. Schacter
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-25
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004221178

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New Perspectives on Jewish-Christian Relations by Elisheva Carlebach,Jacob J. Schacter Pdf

This work revisits the millennia-old Jewish-Christian encounter by providing a nuanced understanding of its challenges as well as presenting new perspectives on hitherto neglected areas of cultural, religious, and social interchange and influence.

Author : Hugh Joseph Schonfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1936
Category : Christian converts from Judaism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025075925

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The History of Jewish Christianity from the First to the Twentieth Century by Hugh Joseph Schonfield Pdf

Author : Gerald McDermott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-03-17
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1683594614

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Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity by Gerald McDermott Pdf

How Jewish is Christianity? The question of how Jesus' followers relate to Judaism has been a matter of debate since Jesus first sparred with the Pharisees. The controversy has not abated, taking many forms over the centuries. In the decades following the Holocaust, scholars and theologians reconsidered the Jewish origins and character of Christianity, finding points of continuity. Understanding the Jewish Roots of Christianity advances this discussion by freshly reassessing the issues. Did Jesus intend to form a new religion? Did Paul abrogate the Jewish law? Does the New Testament condemn Judaism? How and when did Christianity split from Judaism? How should Jewish believers in Jesus relate to a largely gentile church? What meaning do the Jewish origins of Christianity have for theology and practice today? In this volume, a variety of leading scholars and theologians explore the relationship of Judaism and Christianity through biblical, historical, theological, and ecclesiological angles. This cutting-edge scholarship will enrich readers' understanding of this centuries-old debate.

Author : Yaakov Ariel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-06-24
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780814770689

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An Unusual Relationship by Yaakov Ariel Pdf

"In this enormously well researched and gracefully argued book, Ariel develops a nuanced theme: the complexity, ambivalence, and even paradox that has characterized conservative Protestant beliefs regarding Jews and Israel, and the diverse responses among Jews. . . . First-rate scholarship presented in a pleasingly accessible style." —Stephen Spector, author of Evangelicals and Israel: The Story of American Christian Zionism It is generally accepted that Jews and evangelical Christians have little in common. Yet special alliances developed between the two groups in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Evangelicals viewed Jews as both the rightful heirs of Israel and as a group who failed to recognize their true savior. Consequently, they set out to influence the course of Jewish life by attempting to evangelize Jews and to facilitate their return to Palestine. Their double-edged perception caused unprecedented political, cultural, and theological meeting points that have revolutionized Christian-Jewish relationships. An Unusual Relationship explores the beliefs and political agendas that evangelicals have created in order to affect the future of the Jews. This volume offers a fascinating, comprehensive analysis of the roots, manifestations, and consequences of evangelical interest in the Jews, and the alternatives they provide to conventional historical Christian-Jewish interactions. It also provides a compelling understanding of Middle Eastern politics through a new lens. Yaakov Ariel is Professor of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His book, Evangelizing the Chosen People, was awarded the Albert C. Outler prize by the American Society of Church History. In the Goldstein-Goren Series in American Jewish History

Author : Matt Jackson-McCabe
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2020-06-23
Category : Christianity
ISBN : 9780300180138

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Jewish Christianity by Matt Jackson-McCabe Pdf

A fresh exploration of the category Jewish Christianity, from its invention in the Enlightenment to contemporary debates For hundreds of years, historians have been asking fundamental questions about the separation of Christianity from Judaism in antiquity. Matt Jackson-McCabe argues provocatively that the concept "Jewish Christianity," which has been central to scholarly reconstructions, represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created this category as a means of isolating a distinctly Christian religion from what otherwise appeared to be the Jewish culture of Jesus and the apostles. Tracing the development of this patently modern concept of a Jewish Christianity from its origins to early twenty-first-century scholarship, Jackson-McCabe shows how a category that began as a way to reimagine the apologetic notion of an authoritative "original Christianity" continues to cause problems in the contemporary study of Jewish and Christian antiquity. He draws on promising new approaches to Christianity and Judaism as socially constructed terms of identity to argue that historians would do better to leave the concept of Jewish Christianity behind.

Author : Mary C. Boys
Publisher : Sheed & Ward
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2005-03-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461635956

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Seeing Judaism Anew by Mary C. Boys Pdf

In September 2002, twenty-one prominent Catholic and Protestant scholars released the groundbreaking document "A Sacred Obligation," which includes ten statements about Jewish-Christian dialogue focused around a guiding claim: "Revising Christian teaching about Judaism and the Jewish people is a central and indispensable obligation of theology in our time." Following the worldwide reception of their document, the authors have expanded their themes into Seeing Judaism Anew. The essays in this volume offer a conceptual framework by which Christians can rethink their understanding of the church's relationship to Judaism and show how essential it is that Christians represent Judaism accurately, not only as a matter of justice for the Jewish people, but also for the integrity of Christian faith. By linking New Testament scholarship to the Shoah, Christian liturgical life, and developments in the church, this volume addresses the important questions at the heart of Christian identity, such as: Are only Christians saved? Why did Jesus die? Why is Israel so important to Jews, and what should we think about the conflict in the Middle East? How is Christianity complicit in the Holocaust? What is important about Jesus being a Jew?

Author : Asher Norman
Publisher : Feldheim Publishers
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : 0977193705

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Twenty-six Reasons why Jews Don't Believe in Jesus by Asher Norman Pdf

In this seminal work, an attorney puts Jesus on trial, explaining to Jews, Christians and the theologically curious; why Jesus did not qualify as the Jewish messiah; why believing in Jesus cuts Jews off from G-d forever in the World To Come; how the Christian Bible has strategically mistranslated key verses in the "Old Testament" to shoehorn Jesus into the text." This compelling new book calls "unorthodox" Jews back to Torah Judaism. Black, White and Read Publishing.

Author : R.H. Popkin,G.M. Weiner
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-03-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401109123

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Jewish Christians and Christian Jews by R.H. Popkin,G.M. Weiner Pdf

The appearance of religious toleration combined with the intensification of the search for theological truth led to a unique phenomenon in early modern Europe: Jewish Christians and Christian Jews. These essays will demonstrate that the cross-fertilization of these two religions, which for so long had a tradition of hostility towards each other, not only affected developments within the two groups but in many ways foreshadowed the emergence of the Enlightenment and the evolution of modern religious freedom.

Author : John C. Merkle
Publisher : Liturgical Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0814651178

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Faith Transformed by John C. Merkle Pdf

Traditionally, Christian churches have taught that the validity of Judaism came to an end with the emergence of Christianity. But in the last half-century, many Christians have reputiated this teaching and have affirmed the abiding validity of Judaism. Consequently, they have had to reevaluate Christian self-understanding in relation to Judaism. In Faith Transformed, Christian scholars who have been at the forefront of Christian-Jewish relations share how their encounters with Jews and Judaism have transformed their understanding and practice of Christianity. They reveal how their Christian faith has been profoundly enriched by drawing inspiration from the Jewish tradition.