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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...

of Torah—factors not always fully appreciated by Christian exegetes and theologians. First, the commandments of the Torah are not simply collections of laws; they are an integral component of a covenantal structure. Second, concern about the Torah is not limited to the Pentateuch; the Hebrew Scriptures as a whole are pervaded by the imperative to obey the divine will or its implications, whether or not one appeals explicitly to the Torah. The form-critical work of
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