Bøger i Jewish and Christian Texts serien

Assesses the significance of the Parables of Enoch in the study of Christian Origins, the New Testament and the Second Temple Period.

Beginning with the Gospel accounts of the infancy of Jesus, this book opens up the main features of the life of Jesus in a reading that oscillates between the questioning of the historical reference and the penetrating understanding of their verbal expression.

"2 Baruch" is a Jewish pseudepigraphon from the late first or early second century CE. This ancient work addresses the important matter of theodicy in light of the destruction of the temple by the Romans in 70 CE. This title includes an introduction that orients readers to interpretative and textual issues of the book.

In the Seminar "The Pseudepigrapha and Christian Origins of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas," chaired from 2000 to 2006 by Professors James H Charlesworth (Princeton) and Gerbern S Oegema (McGill), the relation between the Pseudepigrapha and the New Testament has been discussed systematically and intensively.

A critical edition of the Greek texts of the "Psalms of Solomon", which reflects the turmoil of events in the last pre-Christian century and gives an eyewitness account of the first invasions of the Romans into Jerusalem. This book provides a detailed expectation of the Jewish Messiah before the New Testament.

The study of early Judaism and early Christianity has been revolutionised by new evidence from a host of sources: the Dead Sea Scrolls, the Pseudepigrapha, the New Testament Apocrypha, the Nag Hammadi writings and related texts, and new papyrus and amulet discoveries. Now scholars have entered the "next generation" of scholarship, where these bodies of evidence are appreciated in conversation with each other and within the contexts of the wider Jewish, Christian, and Greco-Roman cultures from the fourth century BCE to the fourth century CE.This volume features chapters from leading scholars who approach the study of early Judaism and early Christianity from this synthetic approach. The chapters engage in an inter-generational and international dialogue among the past, present and future generations of scholars, and also among European, North-American, African and South-American scholars and their various methodologies and approaches -- linguistic, historical or comparative. Among the chapters are contributions by Professors James Charlesworth (Princeton), André Gagné (Concordia) and Loren Stuckenbruck (Munich), as well as papers from researchers from North America, Europe, South America and Africa.

Examines ancient texts in the Jewish-Christian tradition, especially so-called 'non-canonical' texts, by focusing on how they were used or functioned in early societies.

Presents the historical identity of Jesus through lens of such Jewish scholars as Schalom Ben-Chorin, David Flusser, Geza Vermes, and Jacob Neuser. This book is suitable for those interested in ecumenical discourse and Jesus studies.