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In the Shadow of the Temple offers a new perspective on the development of the early church in its practice (e.g., worship, baptism, and Eucharist) and doctrine (e.g., Scripture, Christology, and pneumatology). Oskar Skarsaune begins by tracing the story of second temple Judaism from the crisis of the Jewish encounter with Hellenism in the second century B.C. through the diverse Judaisms of the...

of the Torah, it may be the most important. The following concepts are also significant, especially since many think of them as very typical of rabbinic Judaism. 1. The famous Hillel (a little earlier than Jesus) is credited with seven rules for interpreting biblical texts. David Daube has shown that all of them correspond to Greek methods of exegesis taught in Greek schools of law and rhetoric and applied to codes of law.23 In the Bible itself, this technical way of interpreting the law does not
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