Bridging between sister religions : : studies of Jewish and Christian scriptures offered in honor of Prof. John T. Townsend / / edited by Isaac Kalimi.
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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| Superior document: | The Brill Reference Library of Judaism, Volume 51 |
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| 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. |
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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.