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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... 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 , " Look toward heaven Introduction 5.
... heaven , and num- ber the stars , if you are able to number them . " Then he said to him , " So shall your descendants be . " And he believed the Lord and he reckoned it to him as righteousness . And he said to him , " I am the Lord who ...
... heavens of Israelite culture were merely heavens , the earth merely earth ; they were not gods . Throughout the Bible , the Israelites maintain that there is only one God , who controls the forces of nature . More important , this God ...
... heaven , has given me all the kingdoms of the earth , and he has charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem , which is in Judah . Whoever is among you of all his people , may his God be with him , and let him go up to Jerusalem ...
... of old . Behold , I am doing a new thing ; now it springs forth , do you not perceive it ? I will make a way in the wilderness and rivers in the desert . " New heavens and a new earth will be created because 16 Rebecca's Children.
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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 |