Rebecca’s Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman WorldHarvard University Press, 15 de mar. de 1989 - 224 páginas Renowned scholar Alan F. Segal offers startlingly new insights into the origins of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. These twin descendants of Hebrew heritage shared the same social, cultural, and ideological context, as well as the same minority status, in the first century of the common era. |
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... God—a supernatural person called the LORD or, as His name is conventionally figured in Hebrew, Yahweh—was governed by the rules of a contract, which specified the divine nature of their societal laws. 4 The root metaphor itself came ...
... God, a treaty was presumably the highest form of contractual arrangement to most of the narrators. This suggests that most of the biblical writers were educated people— courtiers, royal scribes, and administrators who were charged with ...
... God — a super- natural person called the Lord or , as His name is convention- ally figured in Hebrew , Yahweh — was governed by the rules of a contract , which specified the divine nature of their societal laws . The root metaphor ...
... God . Furthermore , the Hebrew God was not only single and unique but also reliable and just in His responses to His people . Hence , His ordinances of law were for the common human good . Nowhere else in the ancient Near East was there ...
... God will con- tinue to oversee the destiny of the people descended from Abraham . In this epic layer of the biblical tradition , the true and enduring aspect of God's providence is expressed as a treaty between two great though ...
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Society in the Time of Jesus | 38 |
Jesus the Jewish Revolutionary | 68 |
Paul the Convert and Apostle | 96 |
Origins of the Rabbinic Movement | 117 |
Communities in Conflict | 142 |
The Ways Divide | 163 |
Notes | 183 |
Scriptural Index | 197 |
General Index | 199 |