Through this Handbook of Patristic Exegesis, the reader will obtain a balanced and cohesive
picture of the Early Church. It gives an overall view of the reception, transmission, and …

Hearing the topic of my research, a professor at Jerusalem's Hebrew University encouraged
me by remarking that while many people “do” tefillin, no one thinks about them. He was …

Scholars of Christian origins often regard Luke-Acts and the writings of Justin Martyr as
similar accounts of the replacement of Israel by the non-Jewish church. According to this …

This volume treats the concepts of revelation, truth, canon, and interpretation as four pillars
of early Christian theology. Using Justin Martyr as a case-study, his" Dialogue with Trypho" …

There have always been male Jews who were not circumcised even though from Biblical
times onwards circumcision was recognised by Jews and non-Jews alike as a sign of the …

In his Dialogue with Trypho, Justin extensively quotes the Jewish scriptures and includes
several citations of logia of Jesus. Furthermore, while explicit citations from Paul are …

In the immediate centuries after the Romans' destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70
CE, Jews and Christians offered contrasting religious explanations for the razing of the locus …

Many sayings in Rabbinic literature are designed to endorse or laud something by
comparison or analogy with another thing, of particu larly great importance or significance …

Two verses about Moses in the Bible have been the subject of debate since the first century.
In Exodus 33: 20, God tells Moses that no one can see God and live, but Numbers 12: 8 says …

Abstract Samaritans, like Jews and Christians, trace their identity to ancient Israel. Today,
they are a minority in Israel-Palestine. In antiquity, however, they appear frequently in our …