Kitve ha-Berit ha-Ḥadashah ke-sifrut Yehudit = New Testament writings as Jewish literature / Serg' Ruzer ; be-shituf : Yaʼir Zaḳovits, Yaʼir Fursṭenberg ṿe-Aryeh Ḳofski.
כתבי הברית החדשה כספרות יהודית = New Testament writings as Jewish literature סרג' רוזר; בשיתוף : יאיר זקוביץ, יאיר פורסטנברג ואריה קופסקי.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruzer, Serge, author.

Zakovitch, Yair, author.

Furstenberg, Yair, author.

Kofsky, Arieh, author.

Contributor:

Yad Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Tsevi, publisher.

Series:

Ben Miḳra le-Mishnah

בין מקרא למשנה

Language:

English

Hebrew

Subjects (All):

Judaism (Christian theology)--History of doctrines.

Judaism (Christian theology).

Christian literature--History and criticism.

Christian literature.

Christianity--History of doctrines.

Christianity.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Physical Description:

581 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

New Testament writings as Jewish literature

Place of Publication:

Yerushalayim : Yad Yitsḥaḳ Ben-Tsevi, 785 = Yanuʼar 2025.

ירושלים : יד יצחק בן צבי, תשפ"ה = ינואר 2025.

Language Note:

Text in Hebrew; added title page, table of contents, and abstract in English.

Summary:

"Today, it is a broadly-held opinion that the religious outlook of most New Testament authors was formed vis-à-vis beliefs, notably messianic ones, current in contemporaneous Judaism. In what sense should we then view their writings as Jewish literature? The answer suggested in this volume is twofold. First, the investigation highlights both the broader Jewish matrix behind the thinking of early Jesus followers and the peculiar modifications the general messianic expectation underwent in their midst. This is a traditional angle of reserch that aims to clarify the Jewish context of the early Christian stance. However, the discussion also follows a parallel and complementary, albeit less trodden, path, which is derived from the understanding that when reworking those backdrop patterns of belief, the earliest Christian traditions by necessity also reflected them. The book therefore emphasizes those instances where the New Testament provides a glimpse of broader Jewish tendencies - with special attention to cases where the evidence about those tendencies would otherwise appear only in later rabbinic sources. In this, the volume takes its inspiration from the Qumran studies' attempts to distinguish between sectarian ideas and those reflecting more common perceptions. While the first introductory section of the book outlines the main aspects of the issue as nascent Christianity's Jewish context, the second presents a discussion of each one of the New Testament compositions. The twenty chapters in the following main section apply the double-research strategy outlined above to a variety of chosen topics that are featured in the writings penned among the first generations of Jesus followers. The combination of the two intertwined approaches allows not only to clarify the relation between nascent Christianity's pecularity and reliance on its Jewish backdrop, but also to create a fuller picture of late Second Temple Judaism."-- Abstract.

Contents:

The beginnings of the Jesus Movement and the formation of the New Testament canon

Sources on the beginnings of Christianity as a Jewish Messianic phenomenon

Second temple Judaism as the background to the emergence of Christianity

From the land of Israel to the Hellenistic diaspora and gentile fellow-travelers

Nascent Christianity's early literary output

Jewish scripture and the making of the Jesus Movement's secondary canon

The New Testament as Jewish literature

The New Testament writings

Synoptic Gospels: development and characteristics of the tradition

The Fourth Gospel as a response to the synoptic narrative

The Book of Acts: fashioning the story of the movement's early history

Paul's authentic epistles and those ascribed to him

Epistles ascribed to other apostles

The Book of Revelation vis-à-vis the wider Jewish apocalyptic matrix

The New Testament and broader tendencies in religious thought

Shaping Jesus' Messianic portrait

The kingdom of Heaven

Jesus as the interpreter of the Torah

Jesus' attitude toward the Torah and its commandments (Yair Furstenberg)

The 'Fulfillment' Midrash in Gospels and Acts (Yair Zakovitch)

The motif of Jesus' atoning death

Jesus as the bearer of God's Word in Johannine prologue

The Messiah as second Moses

Jesus' signs and wonders and those of Moses

The Messiah as a Heavenly figure and the beginning of Jesus' deification

Miraculous birth

Resurrection

The application of the Biblical New Covenant notion to Messianic times (with Aryeh Kofsky)

The idea of the eschatological outpouring of the Spirit

The Book of Acts in the period after Jesus: Jews and Gentiles

The place of the Temple in the redemption scenerio

Obligation to Torah Commandments in Messianic times: Paul and his detractors

The conservative reaction

the epistle of James

The internal man

Polemics with the 'other' and the strategies of self-definition

Coping with the delay of the Messiah's return

Concluding remarks: New Testament writings in the landscape of Second Temple Judaism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9789652174604

9652174602

OCLC:

1513093840

Publisher Number:

022200075169 danacode