Author : William Horbury
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521777261
Total Pages : 36 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Christianity in Ancient Jewish Tradition by : William Horbury
Download or read book Christianity in Ancient Jewish Tradition written by William Horbury and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1999-12-09 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Christianity in Ancient Jewish Tradition, the topic of this short work, has played a large part in the approach of non-Jews to post-Biblical Jewish literature as a whole. Here special attention is paid to the formative thirteenth-century phase in the study of this topic, in Cambridge and throughout western Europe, with reference to rediscovered Greek and Hebrew sources for ancient Judaism and in a setting of mission and Jewish-Christian disputation. It is argued that study of explicit references to Christianity in Jewish tradition should be held together, as in the thirteenth century, with consideration of the question whether Christianity is somehow implicit in the Jewish tradition from which it derives. A survey of aspects of medieval and modern enquiry leads to suggestions for an approach to the topic today.