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The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue: An Introduction to the Study of Judaism from the New Testament Period is unavailable, but you can change that!

For many Christians, the Jewish religion after Christ has seemed vague, mysterious, and even irrelevant. First published in 1907, W. O. E. Oesterley and G. H. Box’s classic The Religion and Worship of the Synagogue filled a void in scholarship on the Jewish tradition written for a Christian audience. It is a handbook for students of comparative religion, Christian theologians, and all those “who...

all things … cf. Mark 6:15; 8:28; 9:11; Luke 9:8, 19. These things point to a conception of the Messiah as one who was super-human, but it is of especial interest to find that the divine-human character is directly taught in the Talmud; Rabbi Akiba, in commenting on Dan. 7:9 (I beheld till thrones were placed [R.V. marg. “cast down”] and one that was ancient of days did sit), he explains the plural (“thrones”) as meaning that one was for God and another for the Son of David, i.e. the Messiah, making
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