Jews Among Christians

Author : Sarit Shalev-Eyni
Publisher : Harvey Miller Pub
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Art
ISBN : 1905375093

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Jews Among Christians by Sarit Shalev-Eyni Pdf

Jews among Christians explores a corpus of illuminated Hebrew manuscripts of the Lake Constance region produced in the first decades of the fourteenth century. The author Sarit Shalev-Eyni, Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, provides a detailed and insightful study of the content, design, and iconography of the illustrations and decorations of a group of Ashkenahzi codices, thereby uncovering a surprising interface between Jews and Christians in the urban workshops of the time. Here, Christian artists would include midrashic components required by their Jewish instructor while drawing on the iconographic traditions of their Christian education, and artists of both religions were able to represent their own theological attitudes as well as profane tendencies and parody - in short, the various aspects of late medieval culture.A close comparison with the well-known Gradual of St. Katharinenthal, now in Zurich, and manuscripts such as the Schocken Bible, formerly in Jerusalem, and the Tripartite Mahzor -- originally bound as two volumes, but now split between Budapest, London and Oxford -- places the corpus firmly in the Lake Constance region and all but confirms the instructor to be one Hayyim, the scribe. The author's discussion of Hayyim's life and work and her historical overview of the relations between Jews and Christians in the final chapters of the book deepens our understanding of the religious and cultural dialogue between the two faiths not only in the production of this group of manuscripts but in the course of every-day life in the Middle Ages.

Author : Carl E. Braaten,Robert W. Jenson
Publisher : Eerdmans Publishing Company
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0802805078

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Jews and Christians by Carl E. Braaten,Robert W. Jenson Pdf

While Christians and Jews have always been aware of their religious connections -- historical continuity, overlapping theology, shared scriptures -- that awareness has traditionally been infected by centuries of mutual suspicion and hostility. As this important volume shows, however, theologians and scholars of Judaism and Christianity alike are now radically rethinking the relation between their two covenant communities. "Jews and Christians" presents the best of this work, introducing readers to current attempts to construct a coherent Jewish theology of Christianity and a Christian theology of Judaism. Here are leading Christian and Jewish thinkers who have engaged in extensive conversation, who take each other's work seriously, and who avoid the pitfall common to Jewish-Christian dialogue -- watering down distinctive beliefs to accommodate both partners. Indeed, these pages show how the new theological exchange goes to the roots of that olive tree of which both Judaism and Christianity are branches, and the book as a whole represents post-Holocaust Jewish-Christian dialogue at the highest theological level. In addition to eight major chapters, "Jews and Christians" includes a moving testimony by Reidar Dittmann on his experience of the Holocaust and reprints the 2000 manifesto "Dabru Emet: A Jewish Statement on Christians and Christianity," followed by incisive Christian and Jewish responses. Contributors: Carl E. Braaten David B. Burrell Barry Cytron Reidar Dittmann David Bentley Hart Robert W. Jenson Jon D. Levenson George Lindbeck Richard John Neuhaus David Novak Peter Ochs Wolfhart Pannenberg R. Kendall Soulen Marvin R. Wilson

Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 54,6 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 : Ilona Steimann
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Christian Hebraists
ISBN : 2503590748

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Jewish Book - Christian Book by Ilona Steimann Pdf

Jewish Book - Christian Book: Hebrew Manuscripts in Transition between Jews and Christians in the Context of German Humanism is intended as a contribution to the history of the production, circulation, and reception of Hebrew materials outside of a Jewish context. An intriguing development in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth-century Christian Hebraism is how and why Christian scholars came to produce their own Hebrew books. Jewish Book - Christian Book: Hebrew Manuscripts in Transition between Jews and Christians in the Context of German Humanism offers a novel examination of this phenomenon in light of nearly unknown Hebrew manuscripts produced by German Hebraists in that period. Anticipating Hebraist printed editions, the Hebraist manuscript copies of Jewish texts represent one of the earliest attempts of Christians to independently form a stock of Jewish literature, which would meet their scholarly needs and interests, and embody a unique encounter of Jewish and Christian views of the Hebrew text and book. How Hebraist copyists coped with the inherent Jewishness of the Hebrew texts and in what ways they transformed and adapted them both textually and materially to serve Christian audience are among the key questions discussed in this study.

Author : Yaakov Ariel
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : James H. Charlesworth,Frank X. Blisard,Jeffrey S. Siker
Publisher : Herder & Herder
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,6 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 : Wayne-Danie Berard
Publisher : Cowley Publications
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781461636106

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When Christians Were Jews (That Is, Now) by Wayne-Danie Berard Pdf

When Christians Were Jews tells the story of identity rediscovered. Narrating recent biblical scholarship as a story of family strife, Berard recounts how early Christians dissociated from their Jewish origins and reflects on the spiritual loss suffered by Christianity because of this division. He calls Christians to explore “with open mind and heart . . . the Jewishness not only of Jesus but of themselves.”

Author : Anthony Bale
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2012-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781780230016

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Feeling Persecuted by Anthony Bale Pdf

In Feeling Persecuted, Anthony Bale explores the medieval Christian attitude toward Jews, which included a pervasive fear of persecution and an imagined fear of violence enacted against Christians. As a result, Christians retaliated with expulsions, riots, and murders that systematically denied Jews the right to religious freedom and peace. Through close readings of a wide range of sources, Bale exposes the perceived violence enacted by the Jews and how the images of this Christian suffering and persecution were central to medieval ideas of love, community, and home. The images and texts explored by Bale expose a surprising practice of recreational persecution and show that the violence perpetrated against medieval Jews was far from simple anti-Semitism and was in fact a complex part of medieval life and culture. Bale’s comprehensive look at medieval poetry, drama, visual culture, theology, and philosophy makes Feeling Persecuted an important read for anyone interested in the history of Christian-Jewish relations and the impact of this history on modern culture.

Author : Judith Lieu,John North,Tessa Rajak
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135081881

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The Jews Among Pagans and Christians in the Roman Empire by Judith Lieu,John North,Tessa Rajak Pdf

In the period of Roman domination there were communities of Jews, some still in Palestine, some dispersed in and around the Roman Empire; they had to face at first the world-wide power of the pagan Romans and later on the emergence of Christianity as an Empire-wide religion. How they coped with these dramatic changes and how they influenced the new forms of religious life that emerged in this period provide the main themes of The Jews Among Pagans and Christians. Essays by the leading scholars in the field together with the introduction by the editors, offer new approaches to understanding the role of Judaism and the pattern of religious interaction characteristic of the period.

Author : Marcel Poorthuis,Joshua Jay Schwartz,Joseph Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 43,6 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 : Jacob Lassner
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226471075

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Jews, Christians, and the Abode of Islam by Jacob Lassner Pdf

In this volume, Jacob Lassner examines the triangular relationship that during the Middle Ages defined - and continues to define today - the political and cultural interaction among the three Abrahamic faiths.

Author : Edward Kessler
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2010-02-18
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139487306

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An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations by Edward Kessler Pdf

Relations between Christians and Jews over the past two thousand years have been characterised to a great extent by mutual distrust and by Christian discrimination and violence against Jews. In recent decades, however, a new spirit of dialogue has been emerging, beginning with an awakening among Christians of the Jewish origins of Christianity, and encouraging scholars of both traditions to work together. An Introduction to Jewish-Christian Relations sheds fresh light on this ongoing interfaith encounter, exploring key writings and themes in Jewish-Christian history, from the Jewish context of the New Testament to major events of modern times, including the rise of ecumenism, the horrors of the Holocaust, and the creation of the state of Israel. This accessible theological and historical study also touches on numerous related areas such as Jewish and interfaith studies, philosophy, sociology, cultural studies, international relations and the political sciences.

Author : Daniel Stein Kokin
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2022-12-19
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783110389517

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Hebrew between Jews and Christians by Daniel Stein Kokin Pdf

Though typically associated more with Judaism than Christianity, the status and sacrality of Hebrew has nonetheless been engaged by both religious cultures in often strikingly similar ways. The language has furthermore played an important, if vexed, role in relations between the two. Hebrew between Jews and Christians closely examines this frequently overlooked aspect of Judaism and Christianity's common heritage and mutual competition.

Author : Arthur Roy Eckardt
Publisher : New York : Scribner
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Christianity and antisemitism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105033638631

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Elder and Younger Brothers by Arthur Roy Eckardt Pdf

Author : Sweeney, Jon M.
Publisher : Orbis Books
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2020-01-09
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781608338177

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Jesus Wasn't Killed by the Jews by Sweeney, Jon M. Pdf

"Christian and Jewish scholars respond to the role of Gospel texts (particularly Lenten readings) in fostering anti-semitism"--