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Mature Christianity : the recognition and repudiation of the anti-Jewish polemic of the New Testament

Title: Mature Christianity : the recognition and repudiation of the anti-Jewish polemic of the New Testament / Norman A. Beck.
Author: Beck, Norman A., 1933-
Publication: Selinsgrove : Susquehanna University Press ; London : Associated University Presses, ©1985.

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Description

327 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Argues that Christians are permitted to repudiate anti-Jewish polemical elements in their tradition which have contributed to the development of antisemitism. Analyzes anti-Jewish texts in the books of the new Testament and proposes that many of them be seen as later interpolations, influenced by the rivalry between Judaism and Christianity. Beck proposes to reject these texts as inauthentic or to minimize their importance by placing them in footnotes, and to alter the translation of the phrase "the Jews."

Subject

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

Includes indexes.

Bibliography (note)

Bibliography: p. 292-305.

Contents

The role of polemic in the sacred scriptures of religious communities -- Focusing on the issue -- Anti-Jewish polemic in the epistles of Paul -- Anti-Jewish polemic in later Pauline traditions -- Anti-Jewish polemic in Mark -- Anti-Jewish polemic in "Q" -- Anti-Jewish polemic in Matthew -- Anti-Jewish polemic in Luke -- Anti-Jewish polemic in Acts -- Anti-Jewish polemic in John and in the Johannine epistles -- Anti-Jewish polemic in the remaining New Testament -- Conclusions, implications, and future agenda for a mature Christianity.

ISBN

0941664031
9780941664035

LCCN

83051047

OCLC

ocm11599253
11599253
SCSB-643363

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library