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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Townsend, John T., honouree.

Kalimi, Isaac, editor.

Series:

Brill reference library of Judaism ; v. 51.

The Brill reference library of Judaism, 1571-5000 ; VOLUME 51

Language:

Multiple languages

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bible.

Rabbinical literature--History and criticism.

Rabbinical literature.

Interfaith relations.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Festschriften.

Physical Description:

xviii, 340 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Boston : Brill, [2016]

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.

Contents:

An introduction / Isaac Kalimi

Biography and bibliography of John T. Townsend / 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 / Göran 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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Online version: Bridging between sister religions

ISBN:

9789004324534

9004324534

OCLC:

951778649