Judaism And The Origins Of Christianity

Author : David Flusser
Publisher : Hebrew University Magnes Press
Page : 770 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : UOM:39015014322849

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Judaism and the Origins of Christianity by David Flusser Pdf

For more than three decades, Professor David Flusser of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has pioneered new understandings of the Jewish background of early Christianity. Many have been fascinated by his unique monograph on Jesus, translated into several languages. Most of his scholarly articles in English, including some new contributions as well as many published in not easily accessible journals, have been collected in this one volume. A must for New Testament scholars, and students of early Judaism, it will also be welcomed by the many lay persons for whom Professor Flusser has provided illumination on the origins of Christian faith.

Author : George W. E. Nickelsburg
Publisher : Fortress Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Religion
ISBN : 145140848X

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Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins by George W. E. Nickelsburg Pdf

In the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, Christian scholars portrayed Judaism as the dark religious backdrop to the liberating events of Jesus' life and the rise of the early church. Since the 1950s, however, a dramatic shift has occurred in the study of Judaism, driven by new manuscript and archaeological discoveries and new methods and tools for analyzing sources. George Nickelsburg here provides a broad and synthesizing picture of the results of the past fifty years of scholarship on early Judaism and Christianity. He organizes his discussion around a number of traditional topics: scripture and tradition, Torah and the righteous life, God's activity on humanity's behalf, agents of God's activity, eschatology, historical circumstances, and social settings. Each of the chapters discusses the findings of contemporary research on early Judaism, and then sketches the implications of this research for a possible reinter-pretation of Christianity. Still, in the author's view, there remains a major Jewish-Christian agenda yet to be developed and implemented.

Author : Annette Yoshiko Reed
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 535 pages
File Size : 50,7 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 : Risa Levitt Kohn,Rebecca Moore
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0742544656

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A Portable God by Risa Levitt Kohn,Rebecca Moore Pdf

Many Christians and Jews believe that their faiths developed independently from each other, and that their religions are distinct, even antagonistic towards each other. A Portable God dramatically departs from the idea that the birth of Judaism and Christianity are two separate, unrelated events. Judaism and Christianity's origins are not seen as following a linear, chronological process that places the Israelites in the beginning, followed by the Jews, and finally the Christians. On the contrary, A Portable God shows that both Judaism and Christianity emerge from the same religious tradition--that of ancient Israel--at the same time. By telling the common story of Jewish and Christian origins, A Portable God shows Jews and Christians as siblings, rather than as parent and child, showing that the similarities between Judaism and Christianity far outweigh their differences, ultimately fostering appreciation for the shared heritage of Judaism and Christianity.

Author : Paula Fredriksen
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 50,9 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 : John Pickard
Publisher : AuthorHouse
Page : 493 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2013-02-26
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781481783637

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Behind the Myths by John Pickard Pdf

There has never been a more important time for a study of the social, economic, and political origins of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the three important world religions that share a common root. This book adopts a Marxist, that is a materialist, view of human development, so it takes as its starting point the idea that gods, angels, miracles, and other supernatural phenomena do not exist in the real world and therefore cannot be taken as explanations for the origin and rise of these faiths. It looks instead at the material conditions at appropriate periods in antiquity and the social and economic forces that were at work, to outline the real foundations of these three doctrines. In doing so, it challenges the historicity of key figures like Moses, Jesus, and Mohammed. This is a unique book that draws on the research, knowledge, and expertise of hundreds of historians, archaeologists, and scholars to create a new synthesis that is both coherent and completely based on a materialist world outlook. It is a book written by an unbeliever for other unbelievers as a contribution to a discussion among atheists and secularists as to the real origins of the so-called Abramic faiths. It will be a revelatory read, even to those already firmly of an atheist or secularist persuasion, underpinning their nonreligious views, and it will provide a valuable resource for all those who might be coming to question the hold that organized religion has had on human society.

Author : Hugh Joseph Schonfield
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,9 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 : Carsten Peter Thiede
Publisher : Palgrave MacMillan
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0312293615

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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Jewish Origins of Christianity by Carsten Peter Thiede Pdf

Unravels the intricate and mysterious history of the Dead Sea scrolls and claims that the scrolls establish links between Judaism and Christianity.

Author : Hershel Shanks
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Christianity
ISBN : IND:30000036564577

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Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism by Hershel Shanks Pdf

This book tells the story of the formation of classical Judaism and orthodox Christianity as parallel yet interlocking histories. Here, in a series of chapters written by leading scholars in this country and in Israel, the reader is offered a general account of how, during the first six centuries of the Common Era, Judaism and Christianity took the form we recognize today.

Author : Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 632 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-23
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004234765

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Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism by Stanley E. Porter,Andrew Pitts Pdf

In Christian Origins and Hellenistic Judaism, Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts assemble an international team of scholars whose work has focused on reconstructing the social matrix for earliest Christianity through reference to Hellenistic Judaism and its literary forms.

Author : Gerald McDermott
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 44,9 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 : Marcel Poorthuis,Joshua Jay Schwartz,Joseph Turner
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 641 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Bernard J. Lee
Publisher : Paulist Press
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1988
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0809130211

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The Galilean Jewishness of Jesus by Bernard J. Lee Pdf

A theology of how Christianity and Judaism can be separate but linked by their roots in Scripture; presents a thorough study of Jesus as teacher seen from a Jewish perspective.

Author : Elias J. Bickerman
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1295 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2007-06-30
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789047420729

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Studies in Jewish and Christian History (2 vols) by Elias J. Bickerman Pdf

The publication of this new edition of Elias Bickerman's acclaimed Studies in Jewish and Christian History along with his famous book, The God of the Maccabees, brings Bickerman's central studies on ancient Judaism and early Christianity to a new generation of students and scholars.

Author : Ithamar Gruenwald,Shaul Shaked,Guy G. Stroumsa,Gedaliahu A. G. Stroumsa
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 3161459962

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Messiah and Christos by Ithamar Gruenwald,Shaul Shaked,Guy G. Stroumsa,Gedaliahu A. G. Stroumsa Pdf