The Jewish Jesus : how Judaism and Christianity shaped each other / Peter Schafer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schäfer, Peter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History.

Judaism.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--History.

Christianity and other religions.

Messiah--History of doctrines.

Messiah.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (368 p.)

Edition:

Core Textbook

Place of Publication:

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

In late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape its own identity. In The Jewish Jesus, Peter Schäfer reveals the crucial ways in which various Jewish heresies, including Christianity, affected the development of rabbinic Judaism. He even shows that some of the ideas that the rabbis appropriated from Christianity were actually reappropriated Jewish ideas. The result is a demonstration of the deep mutual influence between the sister religions, one that calls into question hard and fast distinctions between orthodoxy and heresy, and even Judaism and Christianity, during the first centuries CE.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

1. Different Names of God

2. The Young and the Old God

3. God and David

4. God and Metatron

5. Has God a Father, a Son, or a Brother?

6. The Angels

7. Adam

8. The Birth of the Messiah, or Why Did Baby Messiah Disappear?

9. The Suffering Messiah Ephraim

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

ISBN:

9786613456960

9781283456968

1283456966

9781400842285

140084228X

OCLC:

777375442