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The authors address the issue of God in this world which, in the classical documents of formative Judaism, encompasses the diverse ways in which we me...
The Torah and the Bible
Here is a superb resource for all who wish to deepen their understanding of Judaism and Christianity and the relationship between these two great trad...
An Intimate Biography
Beginning with the Gospels, interpretations of the life of Jesus have flourished for nearly two millennia, yet a clear and coherent picture of Jesus a...
Practices and Beliefs
Judaism in the New Testament explains how the writings of the early church emerged from communities which defined themselves in Judaic terms even as t...
A Critical Introduction
The value and significance of the targums—translations of the Hebrew Bible into Aramaic, the language of Palestinian Jews for centuries following th...
Temple, Purity, and Restoration
The Proclamation of Jesus seeks to place Jesus in the context of first-century Palestinian Judaism. The authors hope to discern the essence of his pre...
Jesus' Vision of God
Bruce Chilton focuses on Jesus' teaching of the kingdom in this volume, part of the Studying the Historical Jesus series, a series devoted to explorin...
A Biography
After 2,000 years of flawed history, here at last is a magnificent new biography of Mary Magdalene that draws her out of the shadows of history and re...
Comparing Theologies
Among the world's religions, Christianity and Judaism are the most symmetrical. But in our day of religious tolerance, a tendency to overlook the vita...
The Philosophy of Religious Argument
The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse argues that the Judaic and Christian heirs of Scripture adopted, and adapted to their o...
Jesus' Announcement of the Kingdom
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Most Jews, Muslims, and Christians are devoted and faithful. Still, on any given day, it’s difficult to avoid the vigorous and heated disputes betwe...
God, Kingdom, Messiah
Two eminent scholars, each expert in his own tradition, take Jewish-Christian dialogue to a new level. Aiming at neither mere description nor conversi...
Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament
How can Jesus said to be "missing"? References to Jesus are not missing, but rather a dimension of his identity. This text demonstrates that in order ...
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Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner study the points of comparisons and contrast between formative Christianity and Judaism. By identifying three categori...
Eucharistic Theologies from Jesus through Johannine Circles
The monograph analyses eucharistic texts on the basis of the social practices which generated them. Six stages of ideology are identified. Jesus himse...
The Cambridge Companion to the Bible, Second Edition focuses on the ever-changing social and cultural contexts in which the biblical authors and their...
The Classics Compared
A concise and lucid introduction to the foundations of Judaism and Christianity, using key documents to examine the similarities and differences betwe...
The Roots of Violence in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
"When they arrived at the place which God had indicated to him, Abraham built an altar there, and arranged the wood. Then he bound his son and put him...
Israel and the Church
The first part of the book deals with Israel in the theology of Judaism, Israel as a kingdom of priests and holy nation, Israel as family, and Israel ...
Christianity: The Basics is a compelling introduction to both the central pillars of the Christian faith and the rich and varied history of this most ...
To Repair and Renew the World
The way of Jesus means that despite our tears and scars, we can become vessels of divine light. A young man loses his wife while their baby escapes wi...
The Formative Faith and Practice of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
If Moses, Jesus, and the Prophet Muhammad were to meet, what would they tell one another about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam? Three of today’s le...
In systematic descriptions, three of today's leading scholars detail the classical theologies of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, and the authoritati...
The Theology and Provenience of the Isaiah Targum
This is the first attempt systematically to explain the growth, background and ideology of the Targum to Isaiah. Its principal stages of development b...
A Fortress Introduction
This book offers an introduction to the literature of the New Testament, demonstrating how these writings can be approached and critically studied in ...
Formative Christianity and Judaism on Finding Life and Meeting Death
An insightful exploration of similarities and differences in Jewish and Christian understands of conversion, life after death, and martyrdom....
The Intersecting Histories of Judaism and Christianity
Politically, for example, the private and communal Christianity became public and dominant after the conversion of Constantine, whereas the formerly p...
Murder, Politics, and the Art of Succession
The Herods explores the Herodian rule from Herod the Great's father, Antipater, until the dynastic sunset with Bereniké, Herod's great-granddaughter,...
Child Sacrifice in the Legacies of the West
Explores the significance and implications of Abraham's near-sacrifice of his son Isaac to shed new light on religious conflicts in the modern world, ...
Readings in the Intersecting Histories of Judaism and Christianity
A companion to Trading Places: The Intersecting Histories of Judaism and Christianity. This volume presents readings from the early Christian and Rabb...
Jesus' Use of the Interpreted Scripture of His Time
Essays in the Mutual Definition of Judaism and Christianity
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Receptions of John's Revelation in Western Imagination
Synoptic Opportunities in Reading about Jesus
Scriptural Laws In Formative Judaism and Earliest Christianity
The authors seek to identify the recurrent tensions, the blatant points of emphasis, the recurring indications of conflict and polemic. Framing the is...