Contesting texts : Jews and Christians in conversation about the Bible / edited by Melody D. Knowles ... [et al.].

Contributor(s): Knowles, Melody DMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: Minneapolis : Fortress Press, c2007. Description: x, 229 p. ; 24 cmISBN: 0800638425 (alk. paper); 9780800638429 (hbk.)Subject(s): Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc | Bible. Old Testament -- Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish | Christianity and other religions -- Judaism | Judaism -- Relations -- ChristianityDDC classification: 220.6 LOC classification: BS 511.3 | .C655 2007Online resources: Table of contents only Notre Dame Online Access
Contents:
Jews, Christians, and the Bible. Dabru emet, Jewish-Christian dialogue, and the Bible: an introduction to Contesting texts / Timothy J. Sandoval with Melody D. Knowles, Esther Menn, and John Pawlikowski -- Jews, Christians, and biblical authority / David Novak -- Promise and fulfillment / Ralph W. Klein -- Texts of violence: Early Jewish and Christian interpretations. Apocalyptic violence and politics: end-times fiction for Jews and Christians / Barbara R. Rossing -- Unbinding Isaac: martyrdom and its exegetical alternatives / Steven Weitzman -- Religious identity and the other in the New Testament. The New testament, religious identity, and the other / Barbara Bowe -- The problematic portral of "the Jews" and Judaism in the gospel of John: implications for Jewish-Christian relations / Sarah J. Tanzer -- Luke's Pharisees: emerging communities / Laurence L. Edwards -- Looking to the present and the future. Can we hope? Can hope be divided? / Walter Brueggemann -- The Bible is active in politics today: a Christian response to Contesting texts / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- Contesting texts: an afterword / David Fox Sandmel -- Appendix: Dabru emet: a Jewish statement on Christians and Christianity

Includes bibliographical references (p. 187-213) and indexes.

Jews, Christians, and the Bible. Dabru emet, Jewish-Christian dialogue, and the Bible: an introduction to Contesting texts / Timothy J. Sandoval with Melody D. Knowles, Esther Menn, and John Pawlikowski -- Jews, Christians, and biblical authority / David Novak -- Promise and fulfillment / Ralph W. Klein -- Texts of violence: Early Jewish and Christian interpretations. Apocalyptic violence and politics: end-times fiction for Jews and Christians / Barbara R. Rossing -- Unbinding Isaac: martyrdom and its exegetical alternatives / Steven Weitzman -- Religious identity and the other in the New Testament. The New testament, religious identity, and the other / Barbara Bowe -- The problematic portral of "the Jews" and Judaism in the gospel of John: implications for Jewish-Christian relations / Sarah J. Tanzer -- Luke's Pharisees: emerging communities / Laurence L. Edwards -- Looking to the present and the future. Can we hope? Can hope be divided? / Walter Brueggemann -- The Bible is active in politics today: a Christian response to Contesting texts / Susan Brooks Thistlethwaite -- Contesting texts: an afterword / David Fox Sandmel -- Appendix: Dabru emet: a Jewish statement on Christians and Christianity

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