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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... give credence. A root metaphor or myth usually takes the form of a story about the cosmos. Although the story may be amusing or enjoyable, it also has four serious functions: to order experience by explaining the beginning of time and ...
... give credence . A root metaphor or myth usually takes the form of a story about the cosmos.3 Although the story may be amusing or en- joyable , it also has four serious functions : to order experience by explaining the beginning of time ...
... give me , for I continue childless , and the heir of my house is Eliezer of Damascus ? " And Abram said , " Behold , thou hast given me no offspring ; and a slave born in my house will be my heir . " And he brought him outside and said ...
... give you this land to possess . " But he said , " O Lord God , how am I to know that I shall possess it ? " He said to him , " Bring me a heifer three years old , a she - goat three years old , a ram three years old , a turtledove and a ...
... gives reality to the concept that 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 ...
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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 |