Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series

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1388-2074
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€136.00$189.00
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JCP
Volume:
25
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004233249
Images of Cosmology in Jewish and Byzantine Art
Shulamit Laderman, Schechter Institute of Jewish Studies
The book presents new figurative models of interchange between Judaism and Christianity. It demonstrates the nexus connecting the account of Creation and the Tabernacle using Jewish and Christian texts and artistic images from late antiquity to the late Middle Ages.
€181.00$252.00
Series:
JCP
Volume:
24
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004245525
The Book of Genesis in Late Antiquity
Emmanouela Grypeou, University of Oxford & Helen Spurling, University of Southampton
This volume examines the relationship between rabbinic and Christian exegetical writings on the book of Genesis in the Eastern Roman Empire and Mesopotamia, and illuminates the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.
€158.00$220.00
Series:
JCP
Volume:
23
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Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004242845
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New Title
The Torah Ark in Renaissance Poland
Ilia M. Rodov, Bar-Ilan University
The book explores the patronage, formation, and symbolism of the Renaissance Torah ark in Polish synagogues.
€107.00$149.00
Series:
JCP
Volume:
22
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004234789
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New Title
Tertullian, On Idolatry and Mishnah Avodah Zarah
Stéphanie E. Binder, Bar-Ilan University
This work compares two third century texts on idolatry: Tertullian's De Idolatria and the rabbinic Mishnah Avodah Zarah, against the background of modern discussions of the “parting of the ways” between Jews and Christians.
€102.00$132.00
Series:
JCP
Volume:
21
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004207219
Salvation through Spinoza
David J. Wertheim
This study chronicles Spinoza’s German-Jewish popularity during the years of the Weimar Republic (1918-1933), explaining it from the political moral and intellectual paradoxes with which Weimar Germany confronted its Jews.
€99.00$136.00
Series:
JCP
Volume:
20
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004207226
Adam, Satan, and the King of Tyre
Hector M. Patmore, Protestant Theological University of the Netherlands
The oracle against the King of Tyre, found in Ezekiel 28.12-19, is a difficult text that inspired diverse interpretations in Late Antiquity. This book examines those interpretations and seeks to understand their origins and development.
€101.00$131.00
Series:
JCP
Volume:
19
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004182554
Establishing Boundaries
F.J.E. Boddens Hosang
Council texts from the eastern and western Mediterranean allow us to see how close relations were between Christians and Jews in late antiquity. These texts give precise descriptions of the continuing close relations between the ordinary faithful Christians and Jews on a daily basis.
€113.00$146.00
Series:
JCP
Volume:
18
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004177277
The Exegetical Encounter between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity
Edited by E. Grypeou & H. Spurling
This collection of essays examines exegetical encounters between Christians and Jews on the book of Genesis. Eminent scholars present outstanding studies on the subject of ‘Exegetical Encounter’ to illuminate the history of relations between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.
€184.00$238.00
Series:
JCP
Volume:
17
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004171503
Interaction between Judaism and Christianity in History, Religion, Art and Literature
Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz, Joseph Turner (Eds.)
This volume contains essays dealing with complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity, taking a bold step, assuming that no historical period can be excluded from the interactive process between Judaism and Christianity, conscious or unconscious, as either rejection or appropriation
€121.00$157.00
Series:
JCP
Volume:
16
Version: 
Hardback
ISBN13:
9789004162730
Essays on Halakhah in the New Testament
Bernard S. Jackson
These essays explore the Jewish background to central issues in the New Testament —letter and spirit, prophecy and law, forgiveness, the accounts of Jesus’ “trial(s)”, evidence required for legal/theological claims, the shepherding images, disinheritance, and teachings on marriage and divorce.
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