By Stanley E. Porter, Brook W.R. Pearson

Christian-Jewish kin have had altering fortunes in the course of the centuries. sometimes there was peace or even mutual realizing, yet often those kinfolk were ones of hysteria, usually related to recrimination or even violence. This quantity addresses many of the significant questions which have been on the middle and the outer edge of those tenuous kin over the years. the amount starts off with a few papers discussing family members as Christianity emerged from and outlined itself by way of Judaism. different papers hint the relatives during the intervening years. And a few papers confront concerns which have been on the center of the 20th century. In all, those papers handle a delicate but important set of matters from numerous methods and views, turning into of their personal method part of the continued dialogue.>

Show description

Read Online or Download Christian-Jewish Relations through the Centuries (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement) PDF

Similar bible study books

Pilgrim Heart: The Inner Journey Home

In Pilgrim center: the internal trip domestic, we see that pilgrimage is not only a literal trip or just a religious metaphor, yet relatively an inspiring direction towards larger self-understanding. no matter if sharing the adventure of her personal pilgrimages to Nepal, Thailand, and the Celtic island of Iona, Scotland, or recounting the tales of others' religious trips, Sarah York unearths to us how the cultural and actual discomforts of shuttle can result in profound own switch.

Redemption and Resistance: The Messianic Hopes of Jews and Christians in Antiquity

Redemption and Resistance brings jointly an eminent forged of individuals to supply a state of the art dialogue of Messianism as an issue of political and spiritual dedication and controversy. by means of surveying this motif over approximately 1000 years with the aid of a targeted old and political searchlight, this quantity is certain to damage clean floor.

Additional resources for Christian-Jewish Relations through the Centuries (Journal for the Study of the New Testament Supplement)

Sample text

448 CE) promised to lead the Jewish people through the sea, dry-shod, from Crete to Palestine. At his command many of his followers threw themselves into the Mediterranean. Some drowned, others were rescued. Moses himself disappeared (cf. Socrates Scholasticus, Hist. Eccl. 33). Evidently, Moses typology had continued to play an important role in shaping restoration hopes. A variety of other pseudo-messiahs appeared in the Islamic period (especially in the eighth century), during the later crusades (especially in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries), and even as late as the sixteenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries (cf.

33), describing 31. W. Dugmore, The Influence of the Synagogue upon the Divine Office (London: Faith Press, rev. edn, 1964), pp. 3-4; cf. McDonald, 'Anti-Judaism in the Early Church Fathers', pp. 246-47. For a contrary position, see R. P. I. Baumgarten and A. ), Jewish and Christian Self-Definition. II. Aspects of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman Period (London: SCM Press, 1981), pp. 226-44. 32. Translation adapted from Dugmore, Influence of the Synagogue, p. 4, who traces the textual history, esp. in n.

M. Fraser, 'Hadrian and Cyrene', JRS 40 (1950), pp. 77-90, esp. pp. 83-84. 18 Appian himself barely escaped Egypt, having witnessed the destruction of the temple of Nemesis by Jewish rebels (Bell. Civ. 90). Among other buildings destroyed were temples dedicated to Apollo and Hecate. In Cyrene the rebels destroyed temples dedicated to Apollo, Artemis, Hecate, Demeter, and possibly temples dedicated to Pluto, Isis, and others. 20 CPJ 435 (115 CE), an edict from the Rutilius Lupus, Roman Prefect of Egypt, refers to a 'battle [|Lid%r|] between 18.

Download PDF sample

Christian-Jewish Relations through the Centuries (Journal by Stanley E. Porter, Brook W.R. Pearson
Rated 4.09 of 5 – based on 35 votes