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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...

In the Jewish texts, the word pairs are natural expressions of biblical covenantal theology. Legitimate concern about a righteous life according to the Torah, and its consequences—fully warranted by the biblical texts—leads naturally to a focus on righteousness and sin, the righteous one and the sinner. The one is to be celebrated and the other criticized. A significant misconception arises, however, when an exegete interprets “the righteous one” of Jewish literature to mean one who is perfect in
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