The ‘New Testament’ as a Polemical Tool

{"ID":5516622,"post_title":"The \u2018New Testament\u2019 as a Polemical Tool","title":"The \u2018New Testament\u2019 as a Polemical Tool","post_content":"This volume contains papers on the ancient Christian use of potentially anti-Jewish New Testament texts. Martin Albl gives a general introduction to the opinions that ancient Christian authors held on Jews and Judaism. James Carleton Paget focuses on the Epistle of Barnabas and its critical position towards the Jewish religion. Wolfgang Gr\u00fcnst\u00e4udl discusses Justin Martyr's non-reception of two apparently anti-Jewish texts: Matt 27:25 (\u00bbHis blood be on us and on our children\u00ab) and John 8:44 (\u00bbYou are from your father the devil\u00ab). Harald Buchinger analyses Melito of Sardes' Paschal homily, in which the Jews are blamed for the death of Christ. Riemer Roukema and Hans van Loon investigate, respectively, Origen's and Cyril of Alexandria's use of NT texts in relation to the Jews and their Scriptures. Hagit Amirav and Cornelis Hoogerwerf focus on the form of polemical discourses in Diodore of Tarsus, Theodore of Mopsuestia, and John Chrysostom. Maya Goldberg studies Theodore of Mopsuestia's ideas on divine paideia in his commentary on Paul\u00f6s epistle to the Galatians, and his view that the NT was intended to finalize \u2013 not replace \u2013 the Old Testament. Alban Massie focuses on Augustine's interpretation of John 1:17, \u00bbThe Law was given through Moses, grace and the truth came through Jesus Christ.\u00ab Brian Matz deals with Jesus' warning against the leaven, i.e. teaching, of the Pharisees (Matt 16:6, 12), and Martin Meiser focuses on patristic reception of Matt 27:25. By way of comparison with ecclesiastial authors, Gerard Luttikhuizen deals with the alleged anti-Jewish interpretation of Scripture in Gnostic texts. This volume demonstrates that potentially anti-Jewish texts were indeed used against Jews, but also toward Christians, sometimes without applying them to Jews.","image":"https:\/\/c5-static.dodax.com\/de-ch\/dp\/RBUPFLR1E3P-cc42c03d8d-175-175-5092871903796470774","url":"https:\/\/www.vergleiche.ch\/unterhaltung\/product\/the-new-testament-as-a-polemical-tool\/","min_price":111,"low_price_merchant_id":70254503,"deeplink":"https:\/\/www.awin1.com\/pclick.php?p=43076975059&a=401125&m=13971&pref1=9783525593769","ean":9783525593769,"brand":"undefined"}