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Ancient Judaism and Christian Origins: Diversity, Continuity, and Transformation is unavailable, but you can change that!

In the nineteenth and the early twentieth century, Christian scholars portrayed Judaism as the dark religious backdrop to the liberating events of Jesus’ life and the rise of the early church. Since the 1950s, however, a dramatic shift has occurred in the study of Judaism, driven by new manuscript and archaeological discoveries and new methods and tools for analyzing sources. George Nickelsburg...

the creation of an episode. The hatred that the author of Jubilees feels toward the Edomites—common in texts of this period—leads him to an unbiblical revision of Genesis 33: Jacob kills his brother Esau. In summary, the texts under consideration reveal a technique of making one’s theological point not by means of propositional statements but through the tendentious retelling of traditional stories preserved in the texts that came to be authoritative Scripture. It is a very old technique that has
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