{"product_id":"ancient-judaism-and-christian-origins-diversity-continuity-and-transformation-9780800636128","title":"Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins: Diversity, Continuity, and Transformation","description":"In the nineteenth and first half of the twentieth century, Christian scholars portrayed Judaism as the dark religious backdrop to the liberating events of Jesus' life and the rise of the early church. Since the 1950s, however, a dramatic shift has occurred in the study of Judaism, driven by new manuscript and archaeological discoveries and new methods and tools for analyzing sources. George Nickelsburg here provides a broad and synthesizing picture of the results of the past fifty years of scholarship on early Judaism and Christianity. He organizes his discussion around a number of traditional topics: scripture and tradition, Torah and the righteous life, God's activity on humanity's behalf, agents of God's activity, eschatology, historical circumstances, and social settings. Each of the chapters discusses the findings of contemporary research on early Judaism, and then sketches the implications of this research for a possible reinter-pretation of Christianity. Still, in the author's view, there remains a major Jewish-Christian agenda yet to be developed and implemented.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e George W. E. Nickelsburg\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fortress Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 08\/22\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.12h x 5.95w x 0.65d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780800636128\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNickelsburg, George W. E.:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eGeorge W. E. Nickelsburg\u003c\/b\u003eis Emeritus Professor of Religion at the University of Iowa, where he taught for more than three decades. He is the author of seventy articles and several hundred dictionary and encyclopedia entries. Among his many works are \u003ci\u003eEarly Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters\u003c\/i\u003e (co-editor; 1986), \u003ci\u003eJewish Literature between the Bible and the Mishnah, \u003c\/i\u003e2nd ed. (Fortress Press, 2005), and \u003ci\u003eEarly Judaism: Texts and Documents on Faith and Piety, Revised Edition\u003c\/i\u003e (co-editor; Fortress Press, 2009).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fortress Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40133727977587,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":24.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_5bcf18b9-e561-4c34-98c3-a9ff78d94a25.jpg?v=1654176678","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/ancient-judaism-and-christian-origins-diversity-continuity-and-transformation-9780800636128","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}