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

• Superior document: The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Volume 51
• TeilnehmendeR: Kalimi, Isaac,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, [The Netherlands] ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2016.; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Brill reference library of Judaism ; Volume 51.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (358 pages).
• Notes: Includes index.

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 relations. The contributors, who are prominent scholars in their fields, include James L. Crenshaw, Göran Eidevall, Anne E. Gardner, Lawrence M. Wills, Cecilia Wassen, Robert L. Brawley, Joseph B. Tyson, Eldon J. Epp, Yaakov Elman, Rivka Ulmer, Andreas Lehnardt, Reuven Kimelman, Bruce Chilton, and Michael W. Duggan.

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.