The Function Of Scripture In Early Jewish And Christian Tradition

Author : Craig A. Evans
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1850758301
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Function of Scripture in Early Jewish and Christian Tradition written by Craig A. Evans and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1998-02-01 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The studies that make up this book explore in what ways Israel's sacred tradition developed into canonical scripture and in what ways this sacred tradition was interpreted in early Judaism and Christianity. This collection will stimulate continuing investigation into the growth and interpretation of scripture in the context of the Jewish and Christian communities of faith, and will serve well as a reader for graduate courses with its focus on early exegesis and intertextuality.

Author : Patrick Gray
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004167471
Total Pages : 521 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Scripture and Traditions written by Patrick Gray and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2008 with total page 521 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains twenty-two essays in honor of Carl R. Holladay, whose work on the interaction between early Christianity and Hellenistic Judaism has had a considerable impact on the study of the New Testament. The essays are grouped into three sections: Hellenistic Judaism; the New Testament in Context; and the History of Interpretation. Among the contributions are essays dealing with conversion in Greek-speaking Judaism and Christianity; 3 Maccabees as a narrative satire; retribution theology in Luke-Acts; church discipline in Matthew; the Exodus and comparative chronology in Jewish and patristic writings; corporal punishment in ancient Israel and early Christianity; and Die Judenfrage and the construction of ancient Judaism.

Author : Craig A. Evans
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567302717
Total Pages : 491 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Interpretation of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianity written by Craig A. Evans and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume assembles several important studies that examine the role of language in meaning and interpretation. The various contributions investigate interpretation in the versions, in intertestamental traditions, in the New Testament, and in the rabbis and the targumim. The authors, who include well-known veterans as well as younger scholars, explore the differing ways in which the language of Scripture stimulates the understanding of the sacred text in late antiquity and gives rise to important theological themes. This book is a significant resource for any scholar interested in the interpretation of Scripture in and just after the biblical period.

Author : Bart Koet
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004247726
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian Tradition written by Bart Koet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-03-18 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian Tradition is a collection of studies in honour of Professor Maarten J.J. Menken (Tilburg) and addresses questions of textual form, Jewish and Christian hermeneutics and notions of authority and inspiration.

Author : Konrad Schmid
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067426939X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Making of the Bible written by Konrad Schmid and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-11-30 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “The Making of the Bible is invaluable for anyone interested in Scripture and in the intertwined histories of Judaism and Christianity.” —John Barton, author of A History of the Bible: The Book and Its Faiths The authoritative new account of the Bible’s origins, illuminating the 1,600-year tradition that shaped the Christian and Jewish holy books as millions know them today. The Bible as we know it today is best understood as a process, one that begins in the tenth century BCE. In this revelatory account, a world-renowned scholar of Hebrew scripture joins a foremost authority on the New Testament to write a new biography of the Book of Books, reconstructing Jewish and Christian scriptural histories, as well as the underappreciated contest between them, from which the Bible arose. Recent scholarship has overturned popular assumptions about Israel’s past, suggesting, for instance, that the five books of the Torah were written not by Moses but during the reign of Josiah centuries later. The sources of the Gospels are also under scrutiny. Konrad Schmid and Jens Schröter reveal the long, transformative journeys of these and other texts en route to inclusion in the holy books. The New Testament, the authors show, did not develop in the wake of an Old Testament set in stone. Rather the two evolved in parallel, in conversation with each other, ensuring a continuing mutual influence of Jewish and Christian traditions. Indeed, Schmid and Schröter argue that Judaism might not have survived had it not been reshaped in competition with early Christianity. A remarkable synthesis of the latest Old and New Testament scholarship, The Making of the Bible is the most comprehensive history yet told of the world’s best-known literature, revealing its buried lessons and secrets.

Author : Bart J. Koet
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004231005
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian Tradition written by Bart J. Koet and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2013-03-22 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Scriptures of Israel in Jewish and Christian Tradition is a collection of studies in honour of Professor Maarten J.J. Menken (Tilburg) and addresses questions of textual form, Jewish and Christian hermeneutics and notions of authority and inspiration.

Author : Marie Noonan Sabin
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198032803
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reopening the Word written by Marie Noonan Sabin and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2002-02-28 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book asks: How might the earliest gospel have been heard by those first followers of Jesus who were religious Jews? Assuming that the earliest Jesus traditions took their shape from forms familiar to Judaism, Sabin sets the composition of Mark in the context of the theological discourse of first-century Judaism. In that context, she notes, all theology was biblical. It took the form of an exchange between current events and Scripture: contemporary persons and happenings were understood through the lens of the Hebrew Bible, while at the same time, the biblical word was reopened--that is, reinterpreted--so as to reveal its relevance to the present faith-community. Applying this kind of compositional process to the Gospel of Mark, Sabin uncovers a fresh reading of the seed, fig tree, and vineyard parables; of the various Temple scenes; of the foolish disciples and the wise women; and of the controversial ending. She highlights the results of her findings by juxtaposing them with interpretations of the same passages given by various church fathers such as Origen, Irenaeus, and Bede, as well as by readings from the twentieth century. The results are provocative. Sabin sees Mark as an original theologian shaping his material out of two primary Jewish traditions: the Wisdom traditions, with their emphasis on God's presence in daily life, and Creation theology, which imagined the End Time not as a catastrophe but as a return to the Garden. She thus offers a new way of understanding Mark's use of Scripture, his eschatology, and his presentation of Jesus. In conclusion, she argues that retrieving Mark's voice in the context of Early Judaism brings with it insights much needed in our day: of God's presence in the ordinary; of God's image reflected in female as well as male; of watchfulness as the way of wisdom; of God's revelation as ongoing.

Author : John M.G. Barclay
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0567696006
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Reception of Jewish Tradition in the Social Imagination of the Early Christians written by John M.G. Barclay and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-08-26 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The contributors to this volume take as their theme the reception of Jewish traditions in early Christianity, and the ways in which the meaning of these traditions changed as they were put to work in new contexts and for new social ends. Special emphasis is placed on the internal variety and malleability of these traditions, which underwent continual processes of change within Judaism, and on reception as an active, strategic, and interested process. All the essays in this volume seek to bring out how acts of reception contribute to the social formation of early Christianity, in its social imagination (its speech and thought about itself) or in its social practices, or both. This volume challenges static notions of tradition and passive ideas of 'reception', stressing creativity and the significance of 'strong' readings of tradition. It thus complicates standard narratives of 'the parting of the ways' between 'Christianity' and 'Judaism', showing how even claims to continuity were bound to make the same different.

Author : Alexander Kulik
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0190863072
Total Pages : 559 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Guide to Early Jewish Texts and Traditions in Christian Transmission written by Alexander Kulik and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2019 with total page 559 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Jewish culture of the Hellenistic and early Roman periods established a basis for all monotheistic religions, but its main sources have been preserved to a great degree through Christian transmission. This Guide is devoted to problems of preservation, reception, and transformation of Jewish texts and traditions of the Second Temple period in the many Christian milieus from the ancient world to the late medieval era. It approaches this corpus not as an artificial collection of reconstructed texts--a body of hypothetical originals--but rather from the perspective of the preserved materials, examined in their religious, social, and political contexts. It also considers the other, non-Christian, channels of the survival of early Jewish materials, including Rabbinic, Gnostic, Manichaean, and Islamic. This unique project brings together scholars from many different fields in order to map the trajectories of early Jewish texts and traditions among diverse later cultures. It also provides a comprehensive and comparative introduction to this new field of study while bridging the gap between scholars of early Judaism and of medieval Christianity.

Author : Craig A. Evans
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 0567383504
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'What Does the Scripture Say?' Studies in the Function of Scripture in Early Judaism and Christianit written by Craig A. Evans and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of essays focuses on the function of Scripture in the New Testament Gospels and the letters of the apostle Paul.