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1 online resource (259 p.) |
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Foreword by Rabbi Yehiel Poupko -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introducing Judaism -- What Is Judaism? -- New Challenges -- Judaism Today: A People -- Key Texts and Terms -- Jewish Denominations -- 2. God of Abraham -- The God of Israel -- Paul's Abraham -- The God of Abraham -- 3. God of Moses -- The God Who Reveals -- Moses -- Torah as Revelation Today -- The Revelation of God -- 4. God of the Commandments -- God's Commandments and God's People -- Abraham Joshua Heschel and the People of God -- Some Christian Reflections |
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5. Israel -- Longing, Hope, and Promise -- Fulfilling All the Mitzvot -- A Place to Be Safe -- Christian Reflections -- 6. God of Prayer -- Models of Prayer -- When to Pray -- Women and Prayer in Judaism -- A Christian Response -- 7. God of Righteousness -- What Does It Mean to Be Righteous? -- Righteousness and the Rabbis -- The Evil Inclination -- Repentance -- The Day of Atonement -- Christian Reflections -- 8. Exile and Restoration -- The Canonization of Scripture -- The History of the Second Temple Era -- The Influence of Hellenism on Second Temple Judaism |
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Elite Individuals and Formative Groups of the First Century CE -- Groups: Seeking Faithfulness to Torah -- 9. Jesus the Jew -- Premodern Jewish Conceptions of Jesus -- The Question of the "Historical Jesus" -- Assessing the "Jewish Jesus" -- 10. Paul the Jew -- Paul in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries -- Paul at Mid-Century -- New Perspective for Jews and Christians -- Assessing the Jewish Paul -- 11. The Rabbis -- The Rabbinic Tradition -- The Talmud -- Transitions -- 12. The Age of Genius -- Political Changes: The Arrival of Islam and the Conflicts between East and West |
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The Exilarch and Gaon under Islam -- Jews under Christian Rule: Spain, France, and the Rhineland -- The Pietists, the Mystics, and the Kabbalah -- 13. Jews in Early Modernity -- Expulsion from Spain -- Seeking New Lands -- The Impact of Martin Luther and the Reformation -- The Jews of Amsterdam -- Mysticism, Messianism, and Mitnagdim -- The Jerusalem of Lithuania -- 14. Emancipation, Reform, and Danger -- Freedom and Faithfulness in the Enlightenment -- The Jewish Enlightenment: Reform and Resistance -- The Scientific Study of Judaism -- The Rise of Modern Anti-Semitism |
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The Education of Adolf Hitler -- Conclusion -- 15. From the Rise of Zionism to the State of Israel -- Early Immigration -- William Blackstone and the Origins of Christian Zionism -- From Balfour to World War II -- The Nazis and the Shoah -- From the Shoah to the State of Israel -- 16. Dialogue and Hope -- Before, During, and After the Shoah -- Jewish Responses -- The Holocaust Theologians -- Anti-Jewish Understandings -- A Way Forward? -- Glossary -- Bibliography |
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Description based upon print version of record |
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Judaism -- Relations -- Evangelicalism.
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Evangelicalism -- Relations -- Judaism.
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Evangelicalism -- United States
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Evangelicalism
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Interfaith relations
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Judaism
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United States
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Electronic book
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| Author |
Poupko, Yehiel
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| ISBN |
9781467460125 |
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1467460125 |
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