Two Living Traditions: Essays on Religion and the Bible (1972 Sandmel), book

Two Living Traditions: Essays on Religion and the Bible (1972) is a book by Samuel Sandmel.

Abstract

Collection of essays on ancient Judaism and Christian origins.

Editions and translations

Published in Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press, 1972.

Contents

The Jewish scholar and early Christianity -- Antiquarianism and contemporaneity: the relevance of studies in religion -- The evasions of modern theology -- Mass crime and the Judeo-Christian tradition -- Reflections on the problem of theology for Jews -- The Jewish community and the outside: the Christian community -- The husk and the kernel -- Jewish and Catholic Biblical scholarship -- Understanding and misunderstanding: prepossession versus malice -- Judaism, Jesus, and Paul: some problems of method in scholarly research -- Prolegomena to a commentary on Mark -- Myths, genealogies, and Jewish myths and the writing of gospels -- "Son of man" in Mark -- Jesus in world history -- Paul reconsidered -- Modern and ancient problems in communication: Rabbinic Judaism, Hellenistic Judaism, and early Christianity -- Bultmann on Judaism -- Isaac Mayer Wise's "Jesus Himself" -- The parting of the ways -- Philo and his pupils: an imaginary dialogue -- The confrontation of Greek and Jewish ethics: Philo, De decalogo -- Parallelomania -- Genesis 4:26b -- The Haggada within scripture -- On canon.

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