Overview
The debate over the extent of Jewish influence upon early Christianity rages on. At the heart of this argument lies the question of Jesus: how does the fate of a first-century Galilean Jew inspire and determine the nature, shape, and practices of a distinct religious movement? Vital to this first question is another equally challenging one: can the four Gospels be used to reconstruct the historical Jesus? In Jesus and Judaism, Martin Hengel and Anna Maria Schwemer seek to untangle the complex relationships among Jesus, Judaism, and the Gospels in the earliest Christian movement. Jesus and Judaism, the first in a four-volume series, focuses on the person of Jesus in the context of Judaism. Beginning with his Galilean origin, the volume analyzes Jesus' relationship with John the Baptist and the Jewish context of Jesus' life and work. Hengel and Schwemer argue that there never was a nonmessianic Jesus. Rather, his messianic claim finds expression in his relationship to the Baptist, his preaching in authority, his deeds of power, and his crucifixion as king of the Jews, and in the emergence of the earliest Christology. As Hengel and Schwemer reveal, Jesus was not only a devout Jew, nor merely a miracle worker, but the essential part of the earliest form of Christianity. Hengel and Schwemer insist that Jesus belongs within the history of early Christianity, rather than as its presupposition. Christianity did not begin after Jesus' death; Christianity began as soon as a Jew from Galilee started to preach the word of God. Not for sale in Europe.
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Author: Martin Hengel ,
Anna Maria Schwemer ,
Wayne Coppins ,
Simon Gathercole
Publisher: Baylor University Press
Imprint: Baylor University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.50cm
, Height: 5.60cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 1.220kg
ISBN: 9781481310994
ISBN 10: 1481310992
Pages: 820
Publication Date: 30 October 2019
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Professional and scholarly
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Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Hengel and Schwemer have laid a fascinating and important book on the table. --Peter J. Tomson Journal for the Study of Judaism [ Jesus and Judaism] is distinguished by a strong sense of measure, as well as by a high level of treatment. --Romano Penna Biblica Hengel's work acts as something like a summation of the New Testament scholarship of the 20th century. --Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr Theologische Literaturzeitung The extraordinary amount of learning [in this text] means that the argument of this volume cannot easily be brushed aside. --Simon J. Gathercole Booklist I'm impressed by the abundance of carefully processed primary and secondary literature. --Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer European Journal of Theology
I'm impressed by the abundance of carefully processed primary and secondary literature. --Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer European Journal of Theology Hengel and Schwemer have laid a fascinating and important book on the table. --Peter J. Tomson Journal for the Study of Judaism [ Jesus and Judaism] is distinguished by a strong sense of measure, as well as by a high level of treatment. --Romano Penna Biblica Hengel's work acts as something like a summation of the New Testament scholarship of the 20th century. --Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr Theologische Literaturzeitung The extraordinary amount of learning [in this text] means that the argument of this volume cannot easily be brushed aside. --Simon J. Gathercole Booklist
Hengel's work acts as something like a summation of the New Testament scholarship of the twentieth century. --Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr Theologische Literaturzeitung The extraordinary amount of learning [in this text] means that the argument of this volume cannot easily be brushed aside. --Simon J. Gathercole Booklist Hengel and Schwemer have laid a fascinating and important book on the table. --Peter J. Tomson Journal for the Study of Judaism [ Jesus and Judaism] is distinguished by a strong sense of measure, as well as by a high level of treatment. --Romano Penna Biblica I'm impressed by the abundance of carefully processed primary and secondary literature. --Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer European Journal of Theology
Hengel's work acts as something like a summation of the New Testament scholarship of the twentieth century. --Karl-Wilhelm Niebuhr Theologische Literaturzeitung Hengel and Schwemer have laid a fascinating and important book on the table. --Peter J. Tomson Journal for the Study of Judaism The extraordinary amount of learning [in this text] means that the argument of this volume cannot easily be brushed aside. --Simon J. Gathercole Booklist [ Jesus and Judaism] is distinguished by a strong sense of measure, as well as by a high level of treatment. --Romano Penna Biblica I'm impressed by the abundance of carefully processed primary and secondary literature. --Franz Graf-Stuhlhofer European Journal of Theology
Author Information
Martin Hengel (1926-2009) was Professor of New Testament and Early Judaism at the Protestant Theology Faculty at the University of Tübingen.Anna Maria Schwemer is Professor of New Testament at the Protestant Theology Faculty at the University of Tübingen. Wayne Coppins is Professor of Religion at the University of Georgia.
