Bridging Between Sister Religions: Studies of Jewish and Christian Scriptures Offered in Honor of Prof. John T. Townsend

359 Pages·2016·6.317 MB·English

by  Isaac Kalimi

Bridging between Sister Religions
The Brill Reference
Library of Judaism
Editors
Alan J. Avery-Peck (College of the Holy Cross)
William Scott Green (University of Miami)
Editorial Board
David Aaron (Hebrew Union College- Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati)
Herbert Basser (Queen’s University)
Bruce D. Chilton (Bard College)
José Faur (Netanya College)
Neil Gillman (Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Mayer I. Gruber (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Ithamar Gruenwald (Tel Aviv University)
Maurice-Ruben Hayoun (University of Strasbourg and
Hochschule fuer Juedische Studien Heidelberg)
Arkady Kovelman (Moscow State University)
David Kraemer (Jewish Theological Seminary of America)
Baruch A. Levine (New York University)
Alan Nadler (Drew University)
Jacob Neusner (Bard College)
Maren Niehoff (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Gary G. Porton (University of Illinois)
Aviezer Ravitzky (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Dov Schwartz (Bar Ilan University)
Güenter Stemberger (University of Vienna)
Michael E. Stone (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Elliot R. Wolfson (University of California, Santa Barbara)
VOLUME 51
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P rof. John T. Townsend
Bridging between Sister Religions
Studies of Jewish and Christian Scriptures Offered in
Honor of Prof. John T. Townsend
Edited by
Isaac Kalimi
LEIDEN | BOSTON
Cover Illustration: “The First Polyglot Psalter. Psalterium, Hebraeum, Graecum, Arabicum, Chaldaeum”
Ed. Agostino Giustiniani, O.P. (1470–1536). Genoa: Petrus Paulus Porrus, August and November 1516.
Rare Books Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Reprinted with
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Townsend, John T., honouree. | Kalimi, Isaac, editor.
Title: Bridging between sister religions : studies of Jewish and Christian
scriptures offered in honor of Prof. John T. Townsend / edited by Isaac
Kalimi.
Description: Leiden : Boston : Brill, 2016. | Series: The Brill reference
library of Judaism, ISSN 1571-5000 ; VOLUME 51 | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016025922 (print) | LCCN 2016027851 (ebook) |
ISBN 9789004324534 (hardback : alk. paper) | ISBN 9789004324541 (E-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Judaism—Relations—Christianity. | Christianity and other
religions—Judaism. | Bible—Criticism, interpretation, etc. | Rabbinical
literature—History and criticism.
Classification: LCC BM535 .B727 2016 (print) | LCC BM535 (ebook) | DDC
220.6—dc23
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Contents
List of Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors xiii
Part 1
The Man and the Book
1 An Introduction 3
Isaac Kalimi
2 Biography and Bibliography of John T. Townsend 11
Isaac Kalimi
Part 2
Hebrew Bible and Its Interpretation
3 Divine Vulnerability: Reflections on the Binding of Issac
(Genesis 22) 19
James L. Crenshaw
4 Shifting Emphasis: Examples of Early and Modern Reception of the
Book of Amos 31
Göran Eidevall
5 Interpreting the Writing on the Wall in Daniel 5 42
Anne E. Gardner
Part 3
New Testament and Its Interpretation
6 The Jewishness of the Gospel of Mark 69
Lawrence M. Wills
7 Jesus’ Work as a Healer in Light of Jewish Purity Laws 87
Cecilia Wassen
viii Contents
8 The Ἰουδαῖοι in the Gospel of John 105
Robert L. Brawley
9 Acts, the “Parting of the Ways” and the Use of the Term ‘Christians’ 128
Joseph B. Tyson
10 Early Christian Attitudes toward ‘Things Jewish’ as Narrated by
Textual Variants in Acts: A Case Study of the D-Textual Cluster 141
Eldon J. Epp
Part 4
Talmudic and Midrashic Studies
11 Some Aspects of Interreligious Polemic in the Babylonian Talmud 175
Yaakov Elman
12 Egyptian Motifs in Late Antique Mosaics and Rabbinic Texts 195
Rivka Ulmer
13 The Binding Fragments of Midrash Tanhuma (Buber) from the
Municipal Library of Trier 217
Andreas Lehnardt
Part 5
Jewish–Christian Relationship
14 “We Love the God Who Loved Us First”: The Second Blessing of the
Shema Liturgy 241
Reuven Kimelman
15 Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate and Renewal in Judaism and
Christianity 262
Bruce Chilton
16 Hanukkah and Community Identity in 1–2 Maccabees and John 284
Michael W. Duggan
Index of Authors 315
Index of Scripture 322
List of Abbreviations
AJSR Association for Jewish Studies Review
BASOR Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
BBR Bulletin for Biblical Research
Bib Biblica
BibInt Biblical Interpretation
BRev Bible Review
CBQ Catholic Biblical Quarterly
DSD Dead Sea Discoveries
ET English Translation
EvQ Evangelical Quarterly
ExpTim Expository Times
Henoch Henoch: Historical and Philological Studies on Judaism
HTR Harvard Theological Review
HUCA Hebrew Union College Annual
Int Interpretation
JA Journal asiatique
JAC Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum
JBL Journal of Biblical Literature
JJS Journal of Jewish Studies
JQR Jewish Quarterly Review
JSJ Journal for the Study of Judaism in the Persian, Hellenistic, and
Roman Periods
JSNT Journal for the Study of the New Testament
JSOT Journal for the Study of the Old Testament
Judaica Judaica: Beiträge zum Verstehen des Judentums
LCL Loeb Classic Library
LTQ Lexington Theological Quarterly
LXX The Septuagint
MGWJ Monatschrift für Geschichte und Wissenschaft des Judentums
MS Manuscript
MT The Masoretic Text
NovT Novum Testamentum
NTS New Testament Studies
OG The Old Greek translation of the Hebrew Bible
P / Pap Papyrus
PAAJR Proceedings of the American Academy for Jewish Research
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