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English ed. (1983)

{de} Pinchas Lapide. Auferstehung: ein jüdisches Glaubenserlebnis. Stuttgart: Calwer; Munich: Kösel, 1977.

{en} Pinchas Lapide. The Resurrection of Jesus: A Jewish perspective, tr. Wilhelm C. Linss. Minneapolis: Augsburg Pub. House, 1983.

Abstract

"I accept the resurrection of Jesus not as an invention of the community of disciples, but as an historical event." When a leading orthodox Jew makes such a declaration, its significance can hardly be overstated. Pinchas Lapide is a rabbi and theologian who has specialized in the study of the New Testament. In this book he convincingly shows that an irreducible minimum of experience underlies the New Testament account of the resurrection, however much of the details of the narrative may be open to objection. He maintains that life after death is part of the Jewish faith experience, and that it is Jesus' messiahship, not his resurrection, which marks the division between Christianity and Judaism. Dr. Lapide quotes Moses Maimonides, the greatest Jewish thinker, in his support: All these matters which refer to Jesus of Nazareth...only served to make the way free for the King Messiah and to prepare the whole world for the worship of God with a united heart."

Contents

Prologue -- "But if Christ has not been raised . . ." -- Resurrection in Judaism -- Passover -- Sinai -- Golgotha -- The must of the resurrection -- Traces of a Jewish faith experience -- Erroneous translations? -- The pedagogy of God -- The "lesser of two evils" -- A messianic midrash -- The testimony of Maimonides -- Our common hope -- Epilogue.

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