As it developed an increasingly distinctive character of its own
during the first six centuries of the common era, Christianity was
constantly forced to reassess and adapt its relationship with the
Jewish tradition. The process involved a number of preoccupations
and challenges: the status of biblical and parabiblical texts
(several of them already debatable in Jewish eyes), the nature and
purposes of God, patterns of prayer (both personal and liturgical),
ritual practices, ethical norms, the acquisition and exercise of
religious authority, and the presentation of a religious "face" to
the very different culture that surrounded and in many ways
dominated both Christians and Jews. The essays in this volume were
developed within that broad field of inquiry, and indeed make their
contribution to it. For, among the many issues already mentioned,
there was also that of persons. What was Christianity to do, not
just with Adam or Noah, say, but with Abraham, David and Solomon,
the great prophetic figures of Jewish history-and, of course, with
Moses? As we move, chapter by chapter, across the early Christian
centuries, we see Moses gradually changing in Christian eyes, and
at the hands of Christian exegetes and theologians, until he
becomes the philosopher par excellence, the forerunner of Plato,
the archetype of the lawgiver, the model shepherd of the people of
God-yet all on the basis of a scriptural record that Jews would
still have been able to recognize. Written by a range of
established scholars, younger and older, many of them highly
distinguished, The Christian Moses will appeal to graduate and
senior students, to those rooted in a range of
disciplines-literary, historical, art historical, as well in
theology and exegesis-and to everyone interested in
Jewish-Christian relations in this early era.
General
| Imprint: |
The Catholic University of America Press
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Series: |
CUA Studies in Early Christianity |
| Release date: |
August 2019 |
| Editors: |
Philip Rousseau
• Janet A. Timbie
|
| Dimensions: |
235 x 160 x 27mm (L x W x T) |
| Format: |
Hardcover
|
| Pages: |
368 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-8132-3191-4 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-8132-3191-4 |
| Barcode: |
9780813231914 |
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