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Book SynopsisThis volume is a collection of fresh essays in honor of Professor John T. Townsend. It focuses on the interpretation of the common Jewish and Christian Scripture (the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament) and on its two off-shoots (Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament), as well as on Jewish-Christian relations. The contributors, who are prominent scholars in their fields, include James L. Crenshaw, Göran Eidevall, Anne E. Gardner, Lawrence M. Wills, Cecilia Wassen, Robert L. Brawley, Joseph B. Tyson, Eldon J. Epp, Yaakov Elman, Rivka Ulmer, Andreas Lehnardt, Reuven Kimelman, Bruce Chilton, and Michael W. Duggan. “an engaging and impressive scholarly work.” - Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 81.3 (2019)
Trade Review“an engaging and impressive scholarly work.” - Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, in: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 81.3 (2019)
Table of ContentsAbbreviations List of Contributors Part One: The Man and the Book 1. An Introduction, Isaac Kalimi 2. Biography and Bibliography of John T. Townsend, Isaac Kalimi Part Two: Hebrew Bible and Its Interpretation 3. Divine Vulnerability: Reflections on the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22), James L. Crenshaw 4. Shifting Emphasis: Examples of Early and Modern Reception of the Book of Amos, Göran Eidevall 5. Interpreting the Writing on the Wall in Daniel 5, Anne E. Gardner Part Three: New Testament and Its Interpretation 6. The Jewishness of the Gospel of Mark, Lawrence M. Wills 7. Jesus’ Work as a Healer in Light of Jewish Purity Laws, Cecilia Wassen 8. The Ἰουδαῖοι in the Gospel of John, Robert L. Brawley 9. Acts, the “Parting of the Ways,” and the Use of the Term “Christians”, Joseph B. Tyson 10. Early Christian Attitudes toward ‘Things Jewish’ as Narrated by Textual Variants in Acts: A Case Study of the D-Textual Cluster, Eldon J. Epp Part Four: Talmudic and Midrashic Studies 11. Some Aspects of Interreligious Polemic in the Babylonian Talmud, Yaakov Elman 12. Egyptian Motifs in Late Antique Mosaics and Rabbinic Texts, Rivka Ulmer 13. The Binding Fragments of Midrash Tanhuma (Buber) from the Municipal Library of Trier, Andreas Lehnardt Part Five: Jewish – Christian Relationship 14. “We Love the God Who Loved Us First”: The Second Blessing of the Shema Liturgy, Reuven Kimelman 15. Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate, and Renewal in Judaism and Christianity, Bruce Chilton 16. Hanukkah and Community Identity in 1-2 Maccabees and John, Michael W. Duggan Index of Authors Index of Scripture
