Bridging between sister religions : studies of Jewish and Christian scriptures offered in honor of Prof. John T. Townsend /

Bridging between sister religions : studies of Jewish and Christian scriptures offered in honor of Prof. John T. Townsend /

This volume is a collection of fresh essays in honor of Professor John T. Townsend. It focuses on the interpretation of the common Jewish and Christian Scripture (the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament) and on its two off-shoots (Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament), as well as on Jewish-Christian relati...

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Other Authors: Townsend, John T., Kalimi, Isaac.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2016.

Series: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism 51.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2016, ISBN: 9789004303942.

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Bible > Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Judaism > Relations > Christianity.
Rabbinical literature > History and criticism.

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Call Number: BM535

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material
  • 1 An Introduction /
  • Isaac Kalimi
  • 2 Biography and Bibliography of John T. Townsend /
  • Isaac Kalimi
  • 3 Divine Vulnerability: Reflections on the Binding of Issac (Genesis 22) /
  • James L. Crenshaw
  • 4 Shifting Emphasis: Examples of Early and Modern Reception of the Book of Amos /
  • Göran Eidevall
  • 5 Interpreting the Writing on the Wall in Daniel 5 /
  • Anne E. Gardner
  • 6 The Jewishness of the Gospel of Mark /
  • Lawrence M. Wills
  • 7 Jesus' Work as a Healer in Light of Jewish Purity Laws /
  • Cecilia Wassen
  • 8 The Ἰουδαῖοι in the Gospel of John /
  • Robert L. Brawley
  • 9 Acts, the "Parting of the Ways" and the Use of the Term 'Christians' /
  • Joseph B. Tyson
  • 10 Early Christian Attitudes toward 'Things Jewish' as Narrated by Textual Variants in Acts: A Case Study of the D-Textual Cluster /
  • Eldon J. Epp
  • 11 Some Aspects of Interreligious Polemic in the Babylonian Talmud /
  • Yaakov Elman
  • 12 Egyptian Motifs in Late Antique Mosaics and Rabbinic Texts /
  • Rivka Ulmer
  • 13 The Binding Fragments of Midrash Tanhuma (Buber) from the Municipal Library of Trier /
  • Andreas Lehnardt
  • 14 "We Love the God Who Loved Us First": The Second Blessing of the Shema Liturgy /
  • Reuven Kimelman
  • 15 Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate and Renewal in Judaism and Christianity /
  • Bruce Chilton
  • 16 Hanukkah and Community Identity in 1-2 Maccabees and John /
  • Michael W. Duggan
  • Index of Authors
  • Index of Scripture.