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Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament

Reflections in the Dim Mirror

By: Serge Ruzer

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Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament

Reflections in the Dim Mirror

By: Serge Ruzer

In Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament Serge Ruzer takes a new tack on the investigation of early Christian polemical strategies against the backdrop of Second Temple Judaism. Complementing traditional inquiry on the subject, Ruzer focuses on those elements of Messiah- and Christ-centered ideas that bear witness to patterns of broader circulation - namely, the Jewish messianic ideas that provided the underpinning for the identity-making moves of Jesus' early followers. The volume suggests that such attempts can be expected to reflect eschatological ideas of the Jewish Other. Exploring cases where the New Testament shows itself an early witness for belief patterns found in contemporaneous or only in later rabbinic sources, this volume reveals a fuller picture of Second Temple Jewish messianism"--.

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Jewish and Christian Perspecti

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9004432922

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9789004432925

Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues

Religious Aspects and Cultural Backgrounds

By: Reuven Kiperwasser,Aryeh Kofsky,Serge Ruzer

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Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues

Religious Aspects and Cultural Backgrounds

By: Reuven Kiperwasser,Aryeh Kofsky,Serge Ruzer

Focusing on travel narratives as a setting for spelling out both cultural exchanges and identity building, the present volume maps a variety of strategies employed in travelogues by Christians and Jews in the late antique Roman East. The first part sheds light on the shared cultural background – folkloric or mythic – reflected in late antique Jewish and Christian sea-travel stories, and the various attempts to adapt it to a specific religious agenda. While the comparative analysis of the sources from two textual communities emphasizes their different religious agendas, it also allows for restoring patterns of the broader background with which they converse. The second part highlights Christian perceptions of the Land of Israel in missionary enterprises and in the eschatological visions. The travelogues offer a window on the interplay between shared inheritance and new agendas within the dialectical development of religious traditions in Late Antiquity.

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Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

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3111566498

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9783111566498

Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament

Reflections in the Dim Mirror

By: Serge Ruzer

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Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament

Reflections in the Dim Mirror

By: Serge Ruzer

In Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament Serge Ruzer takes a new tack on the investigation of early Christian polemical strategies against the backdrop of Second Temple Judaism. Complementing traditional inquiry on the subject, Ruzer focuses on those elements of Messiah- and Christ-centered ideas that bear witness to patterns of broader circulation – namely, the Jewish messianic ideas that provided the underpinning for the identity-making moves of Jesus’ early followers. The volume suggests that such attempts can be expected to reflect eschatological ideas of the Jewish ʻOtherʼ. Exploring cases where the New Testament shows itself an early witness for belief patterns found in contemporaneous or only later rabbinic sources, this volume reveals a fuller picture of Second Temple Jewish messianism.

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BRILL

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9004432930

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9789004432932

Mapping the New Testament

Early Christian Writings as a Witness for Jewish Biblical Exegesis

By: Serge Ruzer

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Mapping the New Testament

Early Christian Writings as a Witness for Jewish Biblical Exegesis

By: Serge Ruzer

This volume discusses links between the exegetical trends current in various Second Temple Jewish circles and patterns of New Testament conversation with Jewish Scripture. The standard focus on Jewish background of Christianity is complemented here by an alternative direction: the “mapping” of New Testament evidence as the early witness to more general trends attested in their fully developed form only later, in rabbinic literature. The question that dominates much of the discussion is: How can the New Testament be used for creating a fuller picture of Second Temple Jewish exegesis? The book deals with a representative variety of samples from different layers of the New Testament tradition: Synoptic Gospels, Pauline Epistles and Acts.

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9047420950

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9789047420958

Syriac Idiosyncrasies

Theology and Hermeneutics in Early Syriac Literature

By: Serge Ruzer,Aryeh Kofsky

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Syriac Idiosyncrasies

Theology and Hermeneutics in Early Syriac Literature

By: Serge Ruzer,Aryeh Kofsky

The study of early Syriac Christianity has for decades been steadily expanding, yet its scope still lags way behind that of research relating to Greek and Latin Christianity. One of the intriguing and understudied topics here is the nature of Syriac Christianity's autonomous identity in late antiquity. This question is intrinsically connected to its genesis from an indigenous Christian Aramaic background as well as its interaction with the neighboring Jewish milieu. This volume unearthes some of the idiosyncracies -- mainly pertaining to trinitarian theology, christology and hermeneutics -- to be found in early Syriac literature before the onslaught of Greek hegemony. The idiosyncrasies analyzed here offer new insights into the nature of that peculiar brand of early Christianity, confirming a model of an indigenous early Syriac tradition gradually entering into a dynamic interaction with Greek influence.

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9004191119

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9789004191112

Mapping the New Testament

Early Christian Writings as a Witness for Jewish Biblical Exegesis

By: Serge Ruzer

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Mapping the New Testament

Early Christian Writings as a Witness for Jewish Biblical Exegesis

By: Serge Ruzer

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Syriac Idiosyncrasies

Theology and Hermeneutics in Early Syriac Literature

By: Serge Ruzer,Aryeh Kofsky

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Theology and Hermeneutics in Early Syriac Literature

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Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament

Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament

Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues

Late Antique Jewish and Christian Travelogues

Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament

Early Jewish Messianism in the New Testament

Mapping the New Testament

Mapping the New Testament

Syriac Idiosyncrasies

Syriac Idiosyncrasies

Mapping the New Testament

Mapping the New Testament

Syriac Idiosyncrasies

Syriac Idiosyncrasies

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