Category: New Testament [~ Period]
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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(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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Hebrew can be found in the books of the New Testament on three different levels. First is the plain linguistic level. Theologumena such as Pesach, Satan and Qorban appear in close proximity to such titles as Rabbi, Abba and Messiah, followed by names and appellations like Israel, Beelzebub, Abaddon, Iscariot, Boanerges, Armageddon, as well as…
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