An introduction / Michael W. Duggan. Hanukkah and community identity in 1-2 Maccabees and John / Isaac Kalimi -- Divine vulnerability: reflections on the binding of Issac (Genesis 22) / James L. Crenshaw -- Shifting emphasis: examples of early and modern reception of the book of Amos / Gòˆran Eidevall -- Interpreting the writing on the wall in Daniel 5 / Anne E. Gardner -- The Jewishness of the gospel of Mark / Lawrence M. Wills -- Jesus' work as a healer in light of Jewish purity laws / Cecilia Wassen -- The Ioudaioi in the gospel of John / Robert L. Brawley -- Acts, the "parting of the ways" and the use of the term 'Christians' / Joseph B. Tyson -- Early Christian attitudes toward 'things Jewish' as narrated by textual variants in Acts: a case study of the D-textual cluster / Eldon J. Epp -- Some aspects of interreligious polemic in the Babylonian Talmud / Yaakov Elman -- Egyptian motifs in late antique Mosaics and rabbinic texts / Rivka Ulmer -- The inding fragments of Midrash Tanhuma (Buber) from the Municipal Library of Trier / Andreas Lehnardt -- "We love the God who loved us first": the second blessing of the Shema liturgy / Reuven Kimelman -- Jewish mysticism, Nostra aetate and renewal in Judaism and Christianity / Bruce Chilton -- Hanukkah and community identity in 1-2 Maccabees and John / Michael W. Duggan.
Summary:
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, Goran 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.
Series:
The Brill reference library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; VOLUME 51
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