Studies in Exegesis

Christian Critiques of Jewish Law and Rabbinic Responses 70-300 CE
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
ISBN: 978-0-391-04165-3
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, 148 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 232 mm, Gewicht: 245 g

Is early Christianity simply Judaism in a foreign accent? Do we have evidence from the Jewish side concerning which biblical verses Jews and Christians bickered over in their interpretations? What did Jesus and Pharisees really argue about? By closely examining the exegetical underpinnings of the controversies between Jews and Christians, Herbert Basser discovers the Jewish side to a debate that, until now, has not received adequate scholarly treatment. He goes behind the words of the gospels and behind the words of the rabbis to decipher the sources upon which both are based in order to make sense of them. Baser shows that the strife between Jews and Christians developed primarily after the death of Jesus when the early Jesus traditions were recast by church writers into bitter controversies between Jesus and Pharisees and between Christian and Jew—controversies that have widened and increased with the passage of centuries.

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Basser, Herbert

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Vergleichende Religionswissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften

Über Autor(innen)

Herbert W. Basser, Ph.D. (1983) in Religious Studies, University of Toronto, is Professor of Religion at Queen's University, Canada. His works, focussing on Jewish texts and the Jewish back-ground of Christianity, include Pseudo-Rabad: Commentary to Sifre Numbers (Scholars Press, 1998).