Judaism and the Origins of Christianity (1988 Flusser), book

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

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.)

Table of 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]