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The great betrayal : christians and jews in the first four centuries / Sheldon W. Lienman.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oregon : Wipe & Stock, 2018.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781532660054
  • 1532660057
Other title:
  • Christians and Jews in the first four centuries
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 261.26 23
LOC classification:
  • BM535
Other classification:
  • online - EBSCO
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Contents:
Intro; Title Page; Introduction; Chapter 1: Judaism; The Covenant; The Laws; Repentance and Redemption; Class Conflict; Chapter 2: Jesus the Jew; Jesus and Judaism; Imitation of God; Jesus and the Law; Religion as Quid pro Quo; Chapter 3: The Crucifixion; The Crucifixion of the Jews; Class Warfare; Jesus and the Temple; The Kingdom of God; Chapter 4: The Disciples; The Disciples as Jews; James vs. Paul; The Gentile Mission; The Splintering of the Faith; Chapter 5: The Rejection; God Rejected the Jews; Other Options; Did Jews Persecute Christians?; The Acts of the Apostles
Chapter 6: HellenizationPlatonism and Paganism; The Mystery Religions; Attack and Defense; Christian Supersessionism; Bibliography
Summary: In the view of many contemporary scholars, both Jesus and Judaism have been misrepresented by the church for the past two thousand years. Their main point is that Judaism was not a superficial, rigid, and outdated religion, and Jesus did not reject it. In fact, along with his disciples, he remained a Law-abiding Jew his entire life. However, as Christianity developed from a Jewish sect in the first century AD to the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century, the church was transformed, Jesus was redefined, and both Jews and their religion were repudiated and marginalized. In short, both Christians and Jews were deeply affected by what many scholars now call the de-Judaization of Jesus. This book is an attempt to correct the traditional theological and scholarly misinterpretations of Jesus and Judaism that emerged over the first four centuries of the life of the church.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed January 30, 2019).

Includes bibliographical references.

Intro; Title Page; Introduction; Chapter 1: Judaism; The Covenant; The Laws; Repentance and Redemption; Class Conflict; Chapter 2: Jesus the Jew; Jesus and Judaism; Imitation of God; Jesus and the Law; Religion as Quid pro Quo; Chapter 3: The Crucifixion; The Crucifixion of the Jews; Class Warfare; Jesus and the Temple; The Kingdom of God; Chapter 4: The Disciples; The Disciples as Jews; James vs. Paul; The Gentile Mission; The Splintering of the Faith; Chapter 5: The Rejection; God Rejected the Jews; Other Options; Did Jews Persecute Christians?; The Acts of the Apostles

Chapter 6: HellenizationPlatonism and Paganism; The Mystery Religions; Attack and Defense; Christian Supersessionism; Bibliography

In the view of many contemporary scholars, both Jesus and Judaism have been misrepresented by the church for the past two thousand years. Their main point is that Judaism was not a superficial, rigid, and outdated religion, and Jesus did not reject it. In fact, along with his disciples, he remained a Law-abiding Jew his entire life. However, as Christianity developed from a Jewish sect in the first century AD to the official religion of the Roman Empire in the fourth century, the church was transformed, Jesus was redefined, and both Jews and their religion were repudiated and marginalized. In short, both Christians and Jews were deeply affected by what many scholars now call the de-Judaization of Jesus. This book is an attempt to correct the traditional theological and scholarly misinterpretations of Jesus and Judaism that emerged over the first four centuries of the life of the church.