The Jewish Annotated New Testament 2nd Amyjill Levine Marc Zvi Brettler by Amy-jill Levine, Marc Zvi Brettler 9780190461850, 0190461853 instant download after payment.

    Introductions to each New Testament book, containing guidance for reading and specific information about how the book relates to the Judaism of the period, have been revised and augmented, and in some cases newly written

    Annotations on the text - some revised, some new to this edition - provide verse-by-verse commentary

    The thirty essays from the first edition are thoroughly updated, and there are twenty-four new essays, on topics such as "Mary in Jewish Tradition," "Christology," and "Messianic Judaism."

    For Christian readers The Jewish Annotated New Testament offers a window into the first-century world of Judaism from which the New Testament springs. There are explanations of Jewish concepts such as food laws and rabbinic argumentation. It also provides a much-needed corrective to many centuries of Christian misunderstandings of the Jewish religion

    For Jewish readers, this volume provides the chance to encounter the New Testament - a text of vast importance in Western European and American culture - with no religious agenda and with guidance from Jewish experts in theology, history, and Jewish and Christian thought. It also explains Christian practices, such as the Eucharist