Amy-Jill Levine is University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, and Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies at Vanderbilt University Divinity School and College of Arts and Sciences.Marc Zvi Brettler is Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor in Judaic Studies at Duke University.

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• Preface to the Third Edition To The Reader Alphabetical Listing of the Books of the New Testament List of Abbreviations The New Testament Gospels and Acts - Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler The Gospel According to Matthew - Introduction and Annotations by Aaron M. Gale The Gospel According to Mark - Introduction and Annotations by Lawrence M. Wills The Gospel According to Luke - Introduction and Annotations by Amy-Jill Levine The Gospel According to John - Introduction and Annotations by Adele Reinhartz The Acts of the Apostles - Introduction and Annotations by Gary Gilbert Epistles and Revelation - Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler The Letter of Paul to the Romans - Introduction and Annotations by Mark D. Nanos The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians - Introduction and Annotations by Shira L. Lander The Second Letter of Paul to the Corinthians - Introduction and Annotations by Alan J. Avery-Peck The Letter of Paul to the Galatians - Introduction and Annotations by Paula Fredriksen The Letter of Paul to the Ephesians - Introduction and Annotations by David Kraemer The Letter of Paul to the Philippians - Introduction and Annotations by Serge Ruzer The Letter of Paul to the Colossians - Introduction and Annotations by Peter Zaas The First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians - Introduction and Annotations by David Fox Sandmel The Second Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians - Introduction and Annotations by Adam Gregerman The First Letter of Paul to Timothy - Introduction and Annotations by Annette M. Boeckler The Second Letter of Paul to Timothy - Introduction and Annotations by Susanne Plietzsch The Letter of Paul to Titus - Introduction and Annotations by Jennifer L. Koosed The Letter of Paul to Philemon - Introduction and Annotations by Sarah Emanuel and Shayne Sheinfeld The Letter to the Hebrews - Introduction and Annotations by Pamela Eisenbaum The Letter of James - Introduction and Annotations by Herbert Basser The First Letter of Peter - Introduction and Annotations by Marcie Lenk The Second Letter of Peter - Introduction and Annotations by Meira Kensky The First Letter of John - Introduction and Annotations by Matthew Kraus The Second Letter of John - Introduction and Annotations by Krista Dalton The Third Letter of John - Introduction and Annotations by Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus The Letter of Jude - Introduction and Annotations by Andrew S. Jacobs The Revelation to John - Introduction and Annotations by David Frankfurter The Essays Introduction to the Essays - Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler History Bearing False Witness: Common Errors Made about Early Judaism - Amy-Jill Levine The Greco-Roman Background of the New Testament - Erich S. Gruen Jewish History, 331 BCE-135 CE - Martin Goodman Revolts against Rome -- Eric M. Orlin Society Judaism and Jewishness - Shaye J. D. Cohen The Sanhedrin - David Goodblatt Judean Family Life in the First Century CE - Ross S. Kraemer Marriage and Divorce - Michael L. Satlow Gender - Tal Ilan Archaeology of the Land of Israel at the Time of Jesus - Jodi Magness The Burial of Jesus: Between Texts and Archaeology - Steven Fine Movements Ioudaios - Joshua D. Garroway Jewish Movements of the New Testament Period - Daniel R. Schwartz Pharisees - Yair Furstenberg Messianic Movements - David B. Levenson The Historical Jesus - Sarah J. Tanzer Paul and Judaism - Paula Fredriksen Judaizers, Jewish Christians, and Others - Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert Jews and Gentiles The Concept of Neighbor in Jewish and Christian Ethics - Michael Fagenblat Jewish Views of Gentiles - Meir Ben Shahar Food and Table Fellowship - David M. Freidenreich Birkat ha-Minim: A Jewish Curse of Christians? - Ruth Langer Jewish Practice The Law - Jonathan Klawans Purity and Impurity in the New Testament - Yitzhak Feder Circumcision - Lawrence Hoffman Disability and Healing - Julia Watts Belser Sacrifice and the Temple - Naphtali Meshel The Synagogue - Lee I. Levine Prayer - Avigdor Shinan Time, Calendars, and Festivals - Sacha Stern Jewish Belief Covenants and Land - Eyal Ben-Eliyahu Sin and Repentance - Alan J. Avery-Peck Supernatural Beings - Rebecca Lesses Logos, A Jewish Word: John's Prologue as Midrash - Daniel Boyarin Jewish Miracle Workers and Magic in the Late Second Temple Period - Geza Vermes z''l and Gideon Bohak Baptism and Eucharist - Isaac W. Oliver Afterlife and Resurrection - Martha Himmelfarb Literature The Septuagint - Leonard Greenspoon The Dead Sea Scrolls - Menahem Kister Philo of Alexandria - David Satran Josephus - Jack Pastor Targum - Moshe J Bernstein The New Testament between the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and Rabbinic Literature - Marc Zvi Brettler The Canon of the New Testament - Michael R. Greenwald The Language of the New Testament and the Translation of the Bible - Naomi Seidman Scripture Fulfillment - Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler Midrash and Parables - David Stern Jewish Responses to the New Testament The New Testament and Jewish-Christian Relations - Ed Kessler Stereotypes about God in the Old and New Testaments - Eva Mroczek Supersessionism - Karma ben-Jochanan Jewish Responses to Christ Followers - Claudia Setzer Jesus in Rabbinic Tradition - Burton L. Visotzky Jesus in Medieval Jewish Tradition - Martin Lockshin Jesus in Modern Jewish Thought - Susannah Heschel Jesus and the New Testament in Modern Yiddish and Hebrew Culture - Matthew Hoffman z''l Abraham in Jewish and Christian Thought - Aaron Koller Moses in the New Testament - Serge Ruzer Paul in Jewish Thought - Daniel R. Langton Mary in Jewish Tradition - Daniel J. Lasker Judas Iscariot in Jewish Thought - Maeera Yaffa Shreiber The New Testament in the Jewish Arts - Marc Michael Epstein Christology - Jehoshua Ahrens Modern Jewish Believers in Jesus - Yaakov Ariel A Jewish Reflection on Christian Claims - Jacob Neusner z''l Tables, Glossary, Index Timeline Chronological Table of Rulers Some Tannaitic Rabbis Some Amoraic Rabbis Calendar Weights and Measures Parallel Texts Chapter/Verse Differences Canons of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament with Additions Translations of Ancient Texts Divisions and Tractates of the Mishnah, Talmud, and Tosefta Glossary Index