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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... writers were educated people— courtiers, royal scribes, and administrators who were charged with writing treaties in their professional lives. In the Sinai story they transform the earlier prose epic from their special perspectives ...
... writers were educated people— courtiers , royal scribes , and administrators who were charged with writing treaties in their professional lives . In the Sinai story they transform the earlier prose epic from their special perspectives ...
... writing de- pends on the prophet's effective use of the metaphors of love and betrothal for covenantal obligation . Since the name of the Canaanite god , Baal , also means " husband , " it too has become part of the extended metaphor of ...
... 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 build him a house at Jerusalem , which is in Judah . Whoever is among you of all his ...
... writing of the Talmud in the second through seventh centuries C.E. , was founded at this time . So too was historical Zionism , founded by the post - exilic Isaiah . By means of prophetic rhetoric Isaiah attempts to bring the people ...
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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 |