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The Bible with and without Jesus : how Jews and Christians read the same stories differently / Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler.
"The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Brettler, explore how Jews and Christians can learn from and understand each other better by exploring how they read many of the same Bible stories through a different lens"-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780062560155
- ISBN: 9780062560162
- Physical Description: 494 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : HarperOne, [2020]
- Copyright: ©2020
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| North Kansas City Public Library | 220.6 LEVINE 2020 (Text) | 0001002376513 | Nonfiction | Available | - |
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Table of Contents
The Bible with and Without Jesus : How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently
| Section | Section Description | Page Number |
|---|---|---|
| Preface | p. ix | |
| A Note on Translations and Abbreviations | p. xv | |
| Chapter 1 | On Bibles and their Interpreters | p. 1 |
| Same Stories, Different Bibles | p. 3 | |
| Christian and Jewish Bibles | p. 7 | |
| On Interpretation | p. 14 | |
| Interpreting Divinely Revealed Texts | p. 21 | |
| Jewish Interpretations: Two Jews, Three Opinions | p. 26 | |
| Christian Interpretation: Aligned with Belief | p. 32 | |
| Chapter 2 | The Problem and Promise of Prophecy | p. 41 |
| Prophecy | p. 43 | |
| Prooftexts | p. 49 | |
| Polemics | p. 54 | |
| Possibilities | p. 60 | |
| Chapter 3 | The Creation of the World | p. 67 |
| In the Beginning | p. 69 | |
| Making Order from Chaos | p. 74 | |
| Wind, Spirit, Wisdom, Logos | p. 82 | |
| "Let Us Make Humankind ..." | p. 88 | |
| Later Jewish Interpretation | p. 93 | |
| Chapter 4 | Adam and Eve | p. 99 |
| Death, Domination, and Divorce | p. 101 | |
| The Garden of Eden | p. 105 | |
| Eating Forbidden Fruit | p. 112 | |
| The Garden of Eden in the Bible Outside of Genesis | p. 119 | |
| Original Sin in the Hebrew Bible? | p. 121 | |
| Adam and Eve in Early Judaism | p. 123 | |
| Later Jewish Tradition | p. 128 | |
| Chapter 5 | "You Are a Priest Forever" | p. 135 |
| Priesthood in Ancient Israel | p. 137 | |
| Jesus the High Priest, After the Order of Melchizedek | p. 141 | |
| Genesis 14: The First Appearance of Melchizedek | p. 148 | |
| Psalm 110: An Enigmatic Royal Psalm | p. 154 | |
| Melchizedek in Later Jewish Tradition | p. 165 | |
| The Problem of Supersessionism in the Epistle to the Hebrews | p. 171 | |
| Chapter 6 | "An Eye for an Eye" and "Turn the Other Cheek" | p. 179 |
| Antitheses or Extensions? | p. 181 | |
| But I Say to You... | p. 186 | |
| On an Eye for an Eye | p. 201 | |
| The Hebrew Bible's Context | p. 206 | |
| The Struggle Between Justice and Mercy | p. 212 | |
| Chapter 7 | "Drink My Blood": Sacrifice and Atonement | p. 219 |
| The Sacrificial Lamb | p. 221 | |
| Sacrifices in Ancient Israel | p. 227 | |
| Passover | p. 236 | |
| Human Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible | p. 238 | |
| Nonsacrificial Atonement | p. 241 | |
| Sacrifice in Postbiblical Judaism | p. 245 | |
| The Blood of Circumcision | p. 248 | |
| The Blood of the Covenant | p. 252 | |
| Chapter 8 | "A Virgin Will Conceive and Bear a Child" | p. 255 |
| To Fulfill What Had Been Spoken | p. 257 | |
| Isaiah in His Context | p. 261 | |
| From "Young Woman" to "Virgin" | p. 271 | |
| From Prediction to Polemic | p. 275 | |
| Chapter 9 | Isaiah's Suffering Servant | p. 285 |
| By His Bruises We Are Healed | p. 287 | |
| The "Suffering Servant" in His Historical Context | p. 295 | |
| The Servant's History in Later Jewish and Christian Traditions | p. 304 | |
| Chapter 10 | The Sign of Jonah | p. 313 |
| Jesus and the Sign of Jonah | p. 315 | |
| The Story of Jonah in Its Earliest Historical Context | p. 320 | |
| Jonah in Christian Eyes | p. 332 | |
| Jonah in Jewish Eyes | p. 337 | |
| Chapter 11 | "My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?" | p. 345 |
| Jesus and Psalm 22 | p. 347 | |
| An Aside: Other Psalms in the New Testament | p. 354 | |
| Psalm 22 in the Scriptures of Israel | p. 358 | |
| When Psalms Become Prophecy | p. 368 | |
| Psalm 22 in Jewish Sources | p. 371 | |
| Chapter 12 | Son of Man | p. 381 |
| Human and/or Divine | p. 383 | |
| In Search of the Son of Man | p. 387 | |
| "Son of Man": From Human to Superhuman | p. 393 | |
| The Son of Man Elsewhere in the New Testament | p. 404 | |
| The Postbiblical Future of the Son of Man | p. 408 | |
| Chapter 13 | Conclusion: From Polemic to Possibility | p. 413 |
| The New Covenant: "'At That Time,' Says the Lord..." | p. 415 | |
| In the Interim | p. 419 | |
| What We Learn | p. 423 | |
| Acknowledgments | p. 427 | |
| Notes | p. 429 | |
| Author Index | p. 467 | |
| Primary Texts Index | p. 475 | |
| Subject Index | p. 485 |
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