Karin Hedner Zetterholm - Böcker

Denna introduktion till den tidiga Jesusrörelsen lämpar sig väl för teologistudenter, präster, pastorer, journalister, kulturarbetare och den intresserade allmänheten. Här presenteras framväxten av det fenomen som började som en obetydlig inom-judisk förnyelserörelse, men som senare utvecklades till den världsreligion som kanske mer än något annat har präglat den västerländska civilisationen. Boken är unik i det att den inte i första hand presenterar de nytestamentliga texterna, utan en religiös rörelse den judiska Jesusrörelsen så som den presenteras i texterna. Fokus ligger således på berättelserna och det historiska skeendet. I samband med denna historiska presentation introduceras också några vetenskapliga problem: Hur kan man veta något om den historiske Jesus? Lämnade Paulus verkligen judendomen? Vilka är källorna till Nya testamentets texter? Vad betyder det att Jesus skärper lagens bud? Dessa frågor behandlas med utgångspunkt i de senaste forskningsrönen. Läsaren får sammantaget en initierad introduktion till den grekisk-romerska världen och andra templets judendom, samt en inblick i den tidiga Jesusrörelsens historia från Jesus, aposteln Paulus och perioden därefter fram till början av det andra århundradet.

Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes important aspects of identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the forming of group identities. Over time, some of these Jewish group identities evolved into non-Jewish Christian identities, others into a rabbinic Jewish identity, while yet others remained somewhere in between. The contributors to this volume trace these developments in archaeological remains as well as in texts from the Qumran movement, the New Testament and the reception of Paul’s writings, rabbinic literature, and apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings, such as the Book of Dreams and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. The long timespan covered in the volume together with the combined expertise of scholars from various fields make this book a unique contribution to research on group identity, Jewish and Christian identity formation, the Partings-of-the-ways between Judaism and Christianity, and interactions between Jews and Christians.

Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes important aspects of identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the forming of group identities. Over time, some of these Jewish group identities evolved into non-Jewish Christian identities, others into a rabbinic Jewish identity, while yet others remained somewhere in between. The contributors to this volume trace these developments in archaeological remains as well as in texts from the Qumran movement, the New Testament and the reception of Paul’s writings, rabbinic literature, and apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings, such as the Book of Dreams and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. The long timespan covered in the volume together with the combined expertise of scholars from various fields make this book a unique contribution to research on group identity, Jewish and Christian identity formation, the Partings-of-the-ways between Judaism and Christianity, and interactions between Jews and Christians.

This book charts the shifting boundaries of Judaism from antiquity to the modern period in order to bring clarity to what scholars mean when they claim that ancient texts or groups are “within Judaism,” as well as exploring how rabbinic Jews, Christians, and Muslims have negotiated and renegotiated what Judaism is and is not in order to form their own identities. Belief in Jesus as the Messiah was seen as part of first-century Judaism, but by the fourth or fifth century, the boundaries had shifted and adherence to Jesus came to be seen as outside of Judaism. Resituating New Testament texts within first- or second-century Judaism is an historical exercise that may broaden our view of what Judaism looked like in the early centuries CE, but normatively these texts remain within Christianity because of their reception history. The historical “within Judaism” perspective, however, has the potential to challenge and reshape the theology of contemporary Christianity while at the same time the long-held consensus that belief in Jesus cannot belong within Judaism is again challenged by the modern Messianic Jewish movement.

Inte i himlen! ger en överskådlig introduktion till judendomens viktigaste verk, judisk bibeltolkning och dess användning i olika sammanhang. Här ges en introduktion till Mishnah, Talmud, Midrash och Targum. Här beskrivs hur judisk tradition tolkat händelsen när Abraham uppmanas att offra sin son Isak. Här klargörs hur djupt präglade Nya testamentets författare var av sin samtida texttolkning, liksom hur bibeltexterna tilllämpas i dagens moderna judiska diskussioner rörande medicinsk etik och homosexualitet.