The Challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam /

The aim of The Challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is to address the theological issues arising when different ancient religious groups inside three Abrahamic religions attempted to understand or define their opinion on the Mosaic Torah. Twelve articles explore various...

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Other Authors: Laato, Antti (Editor)

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden; Boston : BRILL, 2021.

Series: Studies on the Children of Abraham ; 7.
Religious Studies, Theology and Philosophy E-Books Online, Collection 2020, ISBN: 9789004419094.

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Call Number: BS1225.52

Table of Contents:
  • Preface
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Part 1 Hebrew Bible
  • 1 Deuteronomy and the Beginning of the Mosaic Torah
  • Kåre Berge
  • 2 The Torah in the Book of the Twelve Prophets
  • Jacques van Ruiten
  • 3 The Mosaic Torah among the Samaritans: "The Tables That Were Sundered from Divine Essence"
  • Magnar Kartveit
  • Part 2 New Testament
  • 4 What Should a Christ-Believer Eat and What Not? Food Laws in the Gospels and Paul
  • Lukas Bormann
  • 5 'Circumcision of the Heart' in Paul: From a Metaphor of Torah Obedience to a Metaphor of Torah Polemics?
  • Guido Baltes
  • Part 3 Patristic Literature before Islam
  • 6 Jewish Believers in Jesus and the Mosaic Law: The Opinion of Justin Martyr
  • Antti Laato
  • 7 Forgetting an Epic Battle: Did the Early Church Understand the Debate between Paul and His Judaistic Opponents? Preliminary Notes on the Role of the Torah in the Early Church
  • Erkki Koskenniemi
  • 8 Faustus and Augustine: A Manichaean-Catholic Debate on the Mosaic Torah
  • Anni Maria Laato
  • Part 4 Jewish Writings
  • 9 Summarizing the Jewish Law in Antiquity: Examples from Aristeas, Philo, and the New Testament
  • Cor de Vos
  • 10 Rabbinic Exegetical Debates with Samaritans
  • Günter Stemberger
  • Part 5 Encountering Islam
  • 11 "Show Me in the Law": The Use of the Argument of the Law (Torah) in the Dispute between the Muslim Emir and the Patriarch Yuhannon
  • Martin Tamcke
  • 12 Torah in the Christian-Islamic Polemics of Theodore Abū Qurrah and ʿAbd al-Jabbār
  • Serafim Seppälä
  • Index.