Jesus and Judaism
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Jesus and Judaism

  1. 820 pages
  2. English
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Jesus and Judaism

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title Page, About the Series, Title Page, Copyright Page
  3. Summary of Contents
  4. Contents
  5. Editors’ Preface
  6. Author’s Preface to the English Edition
  7. Authors’ Preface to the German Edition
  8. Preliminary Observations
  9. 1. The Overall Temporal and Thematic Framework for a History of Early Christianity
  10. 2. Judaism and Early Christianity
  11. Part I. Judaism
  12. 3. Judaism under Roman Rule in the First Century BCE and CE
  13. 4. The Jewish Religious Parties in Palestine: Pharisees, Essenes, Sadducees, Zealots, Samaritans, and Other Groups
  14. Part II. Preliminary Questions about the Person and History of Jesus
  15. 5. On the Quest for Jesus of Nazareth
  16. 6. The Sources
  17. 7. The Historical Quest
  18. Part III. Jesus the Galilean and John the Baptist
  19. 8. Jesus the Galilean
  20. 9. John the Baptist
  21. 10. Jesus and His Forerunner
  22. Part IV. Jesus’ Activity and Proclamation
  23. 11. On the Geographical-Historical Framework of the Activity of Jesus
  24. 12. The Poetic Form of the Proclamation of Jesus
  25. 13. Jesus’ Proclamation ofthe Kingdom of God
  26. 14. The Will of God
  27. 15. The Fatherly Love of God
  28. Part V. Jesus’ Authority and Messianic Claim
  29. 16. The Prophetic-Messianic Miracle Worker
  30. 17. Prophet or Messiah?
  31. Part VI. The Passion of Jesus
  32. 18. The Last Confrontation in Jerusalem
  33. 19. The Preparation of the Passion of Jesus
  34. 20. Gethsemane, Arrest, and Interrogation of Jesus
  35. 21. The Crucified Messiah
  36. Part VII. The Testimony to the Resurrection of Jesus
  37. 22. The Testimony to the Resurrection of Jesus
  38. Retrospect and Prospect
  39. Bibliography
  40. Index of Ancient Sources
  41. Index of Authors