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The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude. What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.
David A. Desilva
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Num Pages: 360 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HRAF; HRCF2; HRJS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 236 x 163 x 28. Weight in Grams: 600.
Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and shaped by, the Judaism(s) of the Second Temple Period. In The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude David deSilva introduces readers to the ancient Jewish writings known as the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and examines their formative impact on the teachings and mission of Jesus and his half-brothers, James and Jude. Knowledge of this literature, deSilva argues, helps to bridge the perceived gap between Jesus ... Read more
Jews have sometimes been reluctant to claim Jesus as one of their own; Christians have often been reluctant to acknowledge the degree to which Jesus' message and mission were at home amidst, and shaped by, the Judaism(s) of the Second Temple Period. In The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude David deSilva introduces readers to the ancient Jewish writings known as the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha and examines their formative impact on the teachings and mission of Jesus and his half-brothers, James and Jude. Knowledge of this literature, deSilva argues, helps to bridge the perceived gap between Jesus ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Number of Pages
360
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195329001
SKU
V9780195329001
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About David A. Desilva
Trustees' Professor of New Testament and Greek, Ashland Theological Seminary
Reviews for The Jewish Teachers of Jesus, James, and Jude. What Earliest Christianity Learned from the Apocrypha and Pseudepigrapha.
What deSilva offers, to put it less catchily than he does, is an admirably close intertextual study of links between, on the one hand, the voice (his term) heard in these letters and in the words of Jesus in the Gospels and, on the other hand, the voice heard in selected works of Jewish literature from the last pre-Christian centuries. ... Read more