Part of a series covering a range of philosophical and theological figures and movements, this volume sets Jesus's life on earth in the context of ancient literary sources including the New Testament. It also sets out his views on particular Jewish and other theological teachings of the time, ...
ruderman In focusing in this essay on Alexander McCaul, a leading figure in the London Society for Promoting Christianity amongst the Jews, I choose not only a key intellectual and political leader of the Society, but also one of its most profound intellectuals, deeply learned in Jewish ...
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On a routine delivery, a client asks Hanneke for help. Expecting to hear that Mrs. Janssen wants meat or kerosene, Hanneke is shocked by the older woman’s frantic plea to find aperson–a Jewish teenager Mrs. Janssen had been hiding, who has vanished without a trace from a secret room...
The essays of 1936 to 1940 are also Marxist, but constitute a new and original reinterpretation of historical materialism (nourished by Romantic culture and Jewish theology), radically different from the orthodoxy of the Second and Third Internationals. One can perceive as one of the methodological...
The historians of the 1st and 2nd centuries were barely aware of the Jewish messianic sect of Christianity and wrote nothing about Jesus Christ. The few mentions that exist are forgeries.
Fourth, even if a divine messiah was not what first century Jews were looking for, there is a good reason why Jesus may still have made this very claim, as the evidence indicates he did. If he was truly deity, then he may have been attempting to correct the first century Jewish underst...
Well, yes, obviously, going back to my notes and the Biblical texts, we are talking about Jesus of Nazareth being, if you like, the "fall guy" for a cause. As a rather radical Jewish prophet as he was, in historical terms, almost certainly. But it's applicable to an...
The child of a marriage between a handsome Northern Jewish father and a classic-WASP-beauty Southern mother, Benjamin must change identities from Jewish to non-Jewish, from being a smart, precocious self-aware kid to masquerading and passing as a regular boy, from growing into a sexually ...
Razi'sComprehensive Book on Medicine (Al-Hawi)was translated into Latin in 1279 under the titleLiber Continensby Faraj ben Salim, a physician of Sicilian-Jewish origin employed by Charles of Anjou. Gerard of Cremona translated Razi's other textbookLiber ad-Almansorisinto Latin in 1187ADin Toledo...