Schafer, P: The Jewish Jesus

Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-0-691-15390-2
Verlag: Princeton University Press

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Format (B × H): 127 mm x 203 mm, Gewicht: 539 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schäfer, Peter

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Judentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Christentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Historisch-Kritische Jesusforschung
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Jüdische Glaubensrichtungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures ix

Acknowledgments xi

Abbreviations xiii

Introduction 1

Chapter 1. Different Names of God 21

Offerings 22

Creation 24

R. Simlai?s Collection of Dangerous Bible Verses 27

The Bavli Collection 37

R. Simlai and Christianity 42

Chapter 2. The Young and the Old God 55

Chapter 3. God and David 68

Aqiva in the Bavli 70

The David Apocalypse 85

David in Dura Europos 94

Chapter 4. God and Metatron 103

Rav Idith and the Heretics 104

Metatron the Great Scribe 115

The Celestial High Priest 116

The Prince of the World 123

The Instructor of Schoolchildren in Heaven 125

Two Powers in Heaven 127

Akatriel 131

Metatron in Babylonia 138

Metatron and Christianity 141

Chapter 5. Has God a Father, a Son, or a Brother? 150

Chapter 6. The Angels 160

When Were the Angels Created? 160

God?s Consultation with the Angels 165

Angels and Revelation 179

Veneration of Angels 188

Chapter 7. Adam 197

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

Messiah Disappear? 214

The Arab 220

Elijah 222

The Messiah 223

The Mother of the Messiah 227

Christianity 228

Chapter 9. The Suffering Messiah Ephraim 236

Pisqa 34 238

Pisqa 36 242

Pisqa 37 261

Christianity 264

Notes 273

Bibliography 329

Index 343

Über Autor(innen)

Schäfer, Peter
Peter Schäfer is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of religion at Princeton University, where he directs the Program in Judaic Studies. His books include "The Origins of Jewish Mysticism" and "Jesus in the Talmud" (both Princeton). He received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2007.

Peter Schafer is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of religion at Princeton University, where he directs the Program in Judaic Studies. His books include "The Origins of Jewish Mysticism" and "Jesus in the Talmud" (both Princeton). He received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2007.