tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post113017103225483393..comments2024-03-27T03:32:53.817-05:00Comments on Euangelion: Jewish and Christian TextsMichael F. Birdhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09713482855679578651noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-1130339443346939402005-10-26T10:10:00.000-05:002005-10-26T10:10:00.000-05:00Mike,I think you're comments are right on (of cour...Mike,<BR/><BR/>I think you're comments are right on (of course). But I think there are still interesting questions re: the 'christological' (re-)interpretation of the Bible, etc. PRECISELY AS Jewish phenomena. Qumran could elevate 'the Teacher of Righteousness' as the guarantor of correct exposition; Jubilees could identify its 'correct' interpretation of Torah. The identification of JESUS as the interpretive key to Israel's traditions may have been a 'Christian' practice, but it seems to me to be understandable as a Jewish manoeuvre.<BR/><BR/>As you seem to suggest, I think there are other factors (not just theological) at play in the differentiation b/n Judaism and Christianity. But inasmuch as post-70 CE Jewish groups were casting Christians beyond the pale of normative Judaism, should we follow them in this? Would, say, Johanan ben Zakkai have accepted those who read the Enochic texts as Jewish? Perhaps no more than the author of the Fourth Gospel would accept Caiaphas as a 'child of God'.<BR/><BR/>I think the larger question, though, is what use early Christian texts can be used to reconstruct 1st-century Judaism (not just in what it reacts against, but also in what it proposes) AS JEWISH TEXTS, not as Christian texts commenting on Judaism. I'd be interested in such a project, I think.Rafaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14471888340005683193noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-1130262084496054052005-10-25T12:41:00.000-05:002005-10-25T12:41:00.000-05:00Mike doesn't wear "extra" clothes--like Paul Hogan...Mike doesn't wear "extra" clothes--like Paul Hogan, he only wears one alligator skin vest and a single pair each of all-terrain pants and boots. Since he can't take his gator-killing knife (post 9-11, something Paul Hogan never had to deal with), he should have plenty of room.<BR/><BR/>Mike, great post, the best of NTW (redef. of monotheism, election; nature of J's vocation, etc) and other recent NT scholarship coming at us full force. I just prepped for Kingdom of God lecture at this Bible College in Russia...can it get more Jewish than that?J. B. Hoodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17074055343675084879noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13840519.post-1130255478964938682005-10-25T10:51:00.000-05:002005-10-25T10:51:00.000-05:00A warning on book purchases:Just to remind you Mik...A warning on book purchases:<BR/><BR/>Just to remind you Mike, that most airlines only allow 2 bags at 70 pounds to be checked in before they start charging you extra!<BR/><BR/>At this rate you may have to leave the extra clothes at SBL!metalepsishttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09577501652263855291noreply@blogger.com