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Children of the Flesh, Children of the Promise: A Rabbi Talks with Paul is unavailable, but you can change that!

In this follow-up to his influential book, A Rabbi Talks with Jesus, Jacob Neusner, challenges the Apostle Paul to a debate about the true meaning and significance of Judaism. Drawing new boundaries for Jewish-Christian dialogue, Neusner contends that Paul misinterpreted Judaism and that this error has resulted in the widespread perception of Judaism as ethnic and particular while Christianity is...

This book sets forth a debate between myself and the apostle Paul as well as a principal contemporary spokesperson for Paul’s view that Israel is an ethnic entity within the framework of a Judaic system.1 I will show that the Judaism that has set the norms from nearly the time of Paul to our own day conceives of its Israel as never ethnic, but solely transcendental. The Judaism of the dual Torah2 cannot make the distinction critical to Paul’s thought about Israel—the distinction between
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