by hadassah | Jan 25, 2016 | Rise of Christianity
Babylonian Talmud Berakhot 28b- The Composition of the Blessing Against the Heretics After discussing the significance of the number eighteen regarding the prayer of the “Eighteen Benedictions,” the Bablyonian Talmud discusses the origin of what is...
by hadassah | Jan 24, 2016 | Rise of Christianity
Christian Catacombs at Callistus, Rome, 3rd century CE Until after the destruction of Jerusalem by Titus (A.D. 70) the Christians were regarded as a sect of the Jews; hence those Jews who were converted by the Apostles at Rome were buried in the catacombs of...
by hadassah | Jan 24, 2016 | Rise of Christianity
Robert Kysar. “John’s Anti-Jewish Polemic.” Bible Review 9, 1 (1993). In the previous article, Professor Charlesworth calls the Gospel of John the most Jewish of the Gospels. This means, not that it is pro-Jewish or sympathetic to Jewish interests, but that it...
by hadassah | Jan 24, 2016 | Rise of Christianity
Moshe Weinfeld. “The Jewish Roots of Matthew’s Vitriol.” Bible Review 13, 5 (1997). The Evangelist Matthew considered himself and his followers Jews. The gospel writer saw himself as being involved in a Jewish struggle, as he and the emerging rabbinic movement...
by hadassah | Jan 17, 2016 | Rise of Christianity
Paula Fredriksen. “Did Jesus Oppose the Purity Laws?” Bible Review 11, 3 (1995). In the last century, especially in the last few decades, historians of Christianity have increasingly understood Jesus of Nazareth as a participant in the Judaism of his day. Many...
by hadassah | Jan 17, 2016 | Rise of Christianity
William Sanford La Sor. “Discovering What Jewish Miqva’ot Can Tell Us about Christian Baptism.” Biblical Archaeology Review 13, 1 (1987) Until the discoveries of modern archaeology, we knew about ancient Jewish ritual immersion baths only from literary texts....
