John and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context (2017 Culpepper, Anderson), edited volume

John and Judaism: A Contested Relationship in Context (2018) is a volume edited by R. Alan Culpepper and Paul N. Anderson.

Abstract

"Written during the period of the emergence of Christianity and its separation from Judaism, the Gospel of John bears witness to their contested relationship. This volume contains cutting-edge essays written by an international group of scholars who interpret for students and general readers what John tells us about first-century Judaism, the separation of the church from Judaism, and how John's anti-Jewish references are interpreted today."--Publisher description.

Editions

Published in Atlanta: SBL Press, 2017.

Contents

Preface / Alan Culpepper and Paul N. Anderson -- Part 1. Introduction. -- John and the Jews: recent research and future questions / Tom Thatcher -- Is Jesus the king of Israel?: Reflections on Jewish nature of the Gospel of John / Jan G. van der Watt -- Part 2. John as a source for understanding Judaism. -- The Gospel of John as a source for first-century Judaism / Craig R. Koester -- John, Judaism, and "searching the scriptures" / Catrin H. Williams -- John, the Jews, and philosophy / Harold W. Attridge -- Part 3. Reappraising John's relationship to Judaism and Jewish Christianity. -- Story and history: John, Judaism, and the historical imagination / Adele Reinhartz -- Jesus, [Aposynagogos], and modes of religiosity / Jonathan Bernier -- Evidence of conflict with the synagogue in the Johannine writings / Craig A. Evans -- Johannine Christian and Baptist sectarians within lat first-century Judaism / Joel Marcus -- The Shema in John's Gospel and Jewish restoration eschatology / Lori Baron -- Tensions in Matthean and Johannine soteriology viewed in their Jewish context / William R.G. Loader -- Matthew and John: reflections of early Christianity in relation to Judaism / R. Alan Culpepper -- Toward reconfiguring our views on the "parting of the ways": Ephesus as a test case / Jörg Frey -- Part 4. Reading John as Jews and Christians. -- Anti-Judaism and the fourth Gospel fifteen years after the Leuven Colloquium / Reimund Bieringer -- Anti-Semitism and religious violence as flawed interpretations of the Gospel of John / Paul N. Anderson -- Seed of Abraham, slavery, and sin: reproducing Johannine anti-Judaism in the modern commentaries on John 8:31-34 / Ruth Sheridan -- The place of John in Christian-Jewish relations fifty years after Nostra Aetate / Noam E. Marans -- Afterword: What have we learned? Where do we go from here? / R. Alan Culpepper.