Torah Revealed, Torah Fulfilled: Scriptural Laws in Formative Judaism and Earliest Christianity

by Jacob Neusner, Baruch A. Levine, Bruce Chilton

Book Overview

The authors seek to identify the recurrent tensions, the blatant points of emphasis, the recurring indications of conflict and polemic. Framing the issue of the disposition of the Scriptural heritage in broad terms, they describe what characterizes the Gospels and the Mishnah, the letters of Paul and the Tosefta. In other words, if they take whole and complete the writings of first and second century people claiming to form the contemporary embodiment...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0567189651
• ISBN13: 9780567189653
• Release Date: January 2012
• Publisher: Continnuum-3PL
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.2"