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The Dictionary of Jesus and the Gospels bridges the gap between scholars and those pastors, teachers, students and lay people desiring in-depth treatment of select topics in an accessible and summary format. The topics range from cross-sectional themes (such as faith, law, and Sabbath), to methods of interpretation (such as form criticism, redaction criticism, and sociological approaches), from...

. It has sometimes been held that a Judaism that thought of the Spirit as the Spirit of prophecy could not conceive of it as the power of creation and miracle.* This is at best a half-truth. While the Targums tended to translate Genesis 1:2 as “a wind from the Lord,” the LXX renders rûaḥ ʾelōhim by pneuma theou, a collocation which elsewhere means “the Spirit of God” (e.g., Gen 41:38; contrast Gen 8:1 etc.). 2 Baruch 21:4 unquestionably attributes the cosmos to
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