Full Description
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 GCo but not to the same verses of Scripture. In Scripture, all participants to the common Israelite culture propose to find validation GCo 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.
Contents
Preface; 1: Idolatry and Paganism: Scripture's Account, Baruch A. Levine, Rabbinic Reading, Jacob Neusner, Early Christian Interpretation, The Case of Justin Martyr. Bruce D. Chilton; 2: The Nazirite: Scripture's Account, Baruch A. Levine, Rabbinic Reading, Jacob Neusner, New Testament's Interpretation, The Nazirite Vow and the Brother of Jesus Bruce D. Chilton; 3: The Sabbath: Scripture's Account, Baruch A. Levine, Rabbinic Reading, Jacob Neusner, New Testament's Interpretation, Sunday in Christianity Bruce D. Chilton; 4: Clean and Unclean Foods: Scripture's Account of Dietary Purity. Baruch A. Levine, Rabbinic Reading, Jacob Neusner, New Testament's Interpretation, Eucharist as holy food and the mimesis of sacrifice, Bruce D. Chilton; 5: Sexual Purity: Scripture's Account, Baruch A. Levine, Rabbinic Reading, Jacob Neusner, New Testament's Interpretation, Sexuality and Family in Christianity, Bruce D. Chilton; 6: Lex Talionis: Scripture's Account, Baruch A. Levine, New Testament's Interpretation, Jesus' lex talionis, Bruce D. Chilton; Index.
