Authors: Jacob Neusner
ISBN-13: 9781597520805, ISBN-10: 1597520802
Format: Paperback
Publisher: WIPF & Stock Publishers
Date Published: February 2005
Edition: (Non-applicable)
In this provocative follow-up to his enormously influential "A Rabbi Talks with Jesus," Jacob Neusner challenges the apostle Paul to debate the true meaning and significance of Judaism. Drawing new boundaries for Jewish-Christian dialogue, Neusner contends that Paul's misinterpretation of Judaisma misinterpretation perpetuated today by many Christians and Jewshas resulted in the widespread perception of Judaism as 'ethnic' and 'particular,' and Christianity as 'universal.' Yet as Neusner clearly demonstrates, just as Christianity presents an option to all of God's faithful, so too does Judaism's mediation of the voice of God at Sinai echo across the entire world.
Preface | ||
Acknowledgments | ||
1 | The Premise of Paul's Ethnic Israel | 1 |
2 | What Is Israel? | 21 |
3 | The Family of Israel | 40 |
4 | The People of Israel and How They Know God | 59 |
5 | Religion, Nationality, and Ethnicity | 84 |
Epilogue: What Is at Stake in the Sanctity of Israel? | 99 | |
Notes | 107 | |
Bibliography | 113 | |
Index | 117 |