Torah Revealed, Torah Fulfilled: Scriptural Laws In Formative Judaism and Earliest Christianity - Softcover

Neusner, Jacob

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0567189651 ISBN 13: 9780567189653

Publisher: T & T Clark International, 2012

Synopsis

The authors seek to identify the recurrent tensions, the blatant points of emphasis, the recurring indications of conflict and polemic. Framing the issue of the disposition of the Scriptural heritage in broad terms, they describe what characterizes the Gospels and the Mishnah, the letters of Paul and the Tosefta. In other words, if they take whole and complete the writings of first and second century people claiming to form the contemporary embodiment of Scripture’s Israel and ask what they all stress as a single point of insistence, the answer is self-evident. Nearly every Christianity and nearly all known Judaisms appeal for validation to the Scriptures of ancient Israel, their laws and narratives, their prophecies and visions. To Scripture all parties appeal GÇö but not to the same verses of Scripture. In Scripture, all participants to the common Israelite culture propose to find validation GÇö but not to a common theological program subject to diverse interpretation. From Scripture, every community of Judaism and Christianity takes away what it will, but not with the assent of all the others.

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About the Author

Jacob Neusner is the author or editor of over 700 books including The Incarnation of God: The Character of Divinity in Formative Judaism.<br />Bruce Chilton, New Testament and Judaic scholar, is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY. He is a co-author of The Body of Faith (Trinity), God in the World (Trinity), and Comparing Spiritualities (Trinity).

Edition details

• Publisher: T & T Clark International
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0567189651
• ISBN 13: 9780567189653
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256