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Galilee in the First Century (3)

January 24, 2015

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by Shmuel Safrai, Immanuel 24/25, New Testament [~ Period]

Below you find part 3 of a long article, titled: The Jewish Cultural Nature of Galilee in the First Century Because of its length it is devided in three parts. See also part 1, Introduction and part 2, Sages in Galilee Here you find the third and last part, with: Torah Study in Galilee Permanent Academies…
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Galilee in the First Century (2)

January 24, 2015

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by Shmuel Safrai, Immanuel 24/25, New Testament [~ Period]

Below you find part 2 of a long article, titled: The Jewish Cultural Nature of Galilee in the First Century Because of its length it is devided in three parts. See also part 1, Introduction and part 3, Torah in Galilee Here you find the second part, about Sages in Galilee: Rabban Johanan ben Zakkai Rabbi Halafta…
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Galilee in the First Century (1)

January 24, 2015

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by Shmuel Safrai, Immanuel 24/25, New Testament [~ Period]

Below you find part 1 of a long article, titled: The Jewish Cultural Nature of Galilee in the First Century It is translated from Hebrew by Edward Levine. Also available in scanned pages and in a pdf-file. Because of its length it is divided in three parts. Here we give the Introduction and the Table of Contents, with…
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Hermeneutics in Talmud, Midrash and the New Testament

January 24, 2015

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by Arne Jarand Hobbel, Immanuel 24/25, New Testament [~ Period]

This article is mainly about the seven Middot of Hillel: Qal wa-homer Gezerah shawah Binyan av mi-katuv ehad Binyan av mi-shnei ketuvim Kelal u-ferat u-ferat u-khelal Keyotzeh bo be-makom aher Devar ha-lamed me-inyano
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The Charge of Hypocrisy in Matthew 23 and in Jewish Sources

January 24, 2015

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by Moshe Weinfeld, Immanuel 24/25, New Testament [~ Period]

by Moshe Weinfeld Matthew 23 constitutes, as is known, a charge sheet against the Pharisees. The main charge is hypocrisy. The author compiled all sorts of traditions and structured them in a way that would enhance the image of insincerity and hypocrisy. The chapter may be divided into three main parts: 1) the programmatic section…
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Plucking on the Sabbath and Christian-Jewish Polemic

January 24, 2015

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by Menahem Kister, Immanuel 24/25, New Testament [~ Period]

Study of the Gospels makes it increasingly clear that their fundamental stratum must be read as a Jewish text, to be understood within the context of Second Temple Judaism, its halakhic outlook, its beliefs and concepts, its midrashic techniques and ways of argumentation, and the vocabulary and style of the texts it produced. However, the…
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At the Right Hand of the Power

January 14, 2015

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by David Flusser, Immanuel 14, New Testament [~ Period]

While the questioning of Jesus by the High Priest is itself deserving of a full treatment, our present concern is more restricted: we shall attempt to show how the famous Dead Sea Scrolls can shed new light on Jesus’ answer.
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Torah in the Flesh

January 13, 2015

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by Jacobus Schoneveld, Immanuel 24/25, New Testament [~ Period]

A New Reading of the Prologue of the Gospel of John as a Contribution to a Christology without Anti-Judaism Christian theology, in particular the doctrine on Christ, has for many centuries been infested with anti-Judaism. After Auschwitz, Christians are challenged to develop a Christology without anti-Judaism: a doctrine on Christ that does not deny but…
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Some Notes to the Beatitudes

January 8, 2015

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by David Flusser, Immanuel 08, New Testament [~ Period]

(Matthew 5:3-12, Luke 6:20-26) In one of my articles1D. Flusser, “Blessed are the Poor in Spirit,” Israel Exploration Journal Vol. 10, Jerusalem, 1960, pp. 1-13. I tried to show the Essene background of Jesus’ Beatitudes, and at the same time succeeded in finding in the Thanksgiving Scroll (XVIII, 14-15) a passage, which not only comes…
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Pentacost as Festival of the Giving of the Law

January 8, 2015

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by Moshe Weinfeld, Hebrew Bible, Immanuel 08

It is still a prevalent view that Pentecost as a festival commemorating the revelation at Sinai and giving of the law (זמן מתן תורתינו)l1Cf. Amidah liturgy of Shavuot. See J. Elbogen, Der Jüdische Gottesdienst in seiner geschichtlichen Entwicklung3, 1931, p. 138. cannot be earlier than the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. Thus for example,…
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