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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... king Hammurabi was said to have received his law code from the god of wisdom, Shamash. Furthermore, gods were almost always called upon to witness and protect the integrity of oaths. Every treaty between nations in the ancient Near East ...
... king Hammurabi was said to have received his law code from the god of wisdom , Sha- mash . Furthermore , gods were almost always called upon to witness and protect the integrity of oaths . Every treaty be- tween nations in the ancient ...
... King- doms , the stories of Abraham and Jacob functioned to unify all those who claimed common descent from these patriarchs . The root metaphor of family relation to Jacob — the person whose alternate name , Israel , became the name of ...
... king , cannot fairly be reduced to a treaty form . Like treaties , however , marriage contracts are covenants , enforced by oaths.8 Only one type of biblical marriage alludes directly to treaty forms , the marriage between kings which ...
... king of Persia so that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom and also put in writing : " Thus says Cyrus king of Persia : ' The Lord , the God of heaven , has given me all the kingdoms of the earth , and he has charged me to ...
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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 |