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''' Judaism and the Origins of Christianity''' (1988) is a book by [[David Flusser]]. 

==Abstract==

"For more than three decades, Professor David Flusser of the Hebrew University in Jerusalem has pioneered new understandings of the Jewish background of early Christianity. Many have been fascinated by his unique monograph on Jesus, translated into several languages, Most of his scholarly articles in English, including some new contributions as well as many published in not easily accessible journals, have been collected in this one volume. A must for New Testament scholars, and students of early Judaism, it will also be welcomed by the many lay persons for whom Professor Flusser has provided illumination on the origins of Christian faith."--Publisher description.

==Editions ==

Published in [[Jerusalem, Israel]]: Magnes Press, 1988.

====Translations====

*[[Il giudaismo e le origini del cristianesimo (1995 Flusser / Ventura), book (Italian ed.)]]

*[[A judaizmus és a kereszténység eredete (1999 Flusser), book (Hungarian ed.)]]

==Contents==

The Dead Sea scrolls and the New Testament. 
*The apocryphal book of Ascensio Isaiae and the Dead Sea sect 
*Healing through the laying-on of hands in a Dead Sea scroll 
*The Dead Sea sect and pre-Pauline Christianity 
*From the Essenes to Romans 9:24-33 
*Two notes on the Midrash on 2 Sam. vii 
*Blessed are the poor in spirit 
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*Some notes to the Beatitudes 
*The Magnificat, the Benedictus and the War Scroll 
*Jesus' opinion about the Essenes 
*The slave of two masters / [[David Flusser]] and [[Shmuel Safrai]]
*Qumran und die Zwölf *Melchizedek and the Son of Man 
*The social message from Qumran 
*The Last Supper and the Essenes 
*The hubris of the Antichrist in fragment from Qumran 
*Qumran and Jewish 'apotropaic' prayers
Jewish and Christian apocalyptic. 
*Salvation present and future 
*Messianology and Christology in the Epistle to the Hebrews 
*Messianic blessings in Jewish and Christian texts / [[Brad Young]] and [[David Flusser]] 
*"At the right hand of power" 
*The Essene doctrine of hypostasis and Rabbi Meir / [[David Flusser]] and [[Shmuel Safrai]]
*The four empires in the Fourth Sybyl and in the Book of Daniel 
*The fourth empire: an Indian rhinoceros? 
*A quotation from the Gathas in a Christian Sibylline oracle 
*An early Jewish-Christian document in the Tiburtine Sibyl 
*Hystaspes and John of Patmos 
*No temple in the city Ancient Judaism and Christianity. 
*A new sensitivity in Judaism and the Christian message 
*Johanan ben Zakkai and Matthew 
*A rabbinic parallel to the Sermon on the Mount 
*The Didache and the Noachic commandments 
*Hillel's self-awareness and Jesus 
*"I am in the midst of them" (Mt. 18:20) 
*Jesus and the sign of the Son of Man 
*A lost Jewish benediction in Matthew 9:8 
*"It is not a serpent that kills" 
*Two anti-Jewish montages in Matthew 
*Matthew's "Verus Israel" 
*The crucified one and the Jews 
*A literary approach to the trial of Jesus 
*What was the original meaning of Ecce homo? 
*"Who is it that struck you?" 
*Josephus on the Sadducees and Menander 
*The Jewish-Christian schism 
*Abraham and the Upanishads.

==External links==
*[ Google Books]
	

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