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Employs the social-psychological study of social rejection, social
identity theory, and social memory theory, shedding new light on
the topic.
Employs the social-psychological study of social rejection, social
identity theory, and social memory theory, shedding new light on
the topic.
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls in the caves near Qumran in
1947 sparked near endless speculation about the possible
connections between the Essenesapurportedly the inhabitants of the
settlementaand the birth, nature, and growth of early Christianity.
Jesus, the Essenes, and Christian Origins sheds new light on this
old question by reexamining the complex relationships among Qumran,
the historical Jesus, the Essenes, and Christian origins within
first-century Palestinian Judaism. Author Simon J. Joseph's careful
examination of a number of distinctive passages in the Jesus
tradition in light of Qumran-Essene texts focuses on major points
of contact between the Qumran-Essene community and early
Christianity in four areas of belief and practice: covenant
identity, messianism, eschatology, and halakhah (legal
interpretation), placing the weight of his argument for continuity
and discontinuity on the halakhic topics of divorce, Sabbath,
sacrifice, celibacy, and violence. Joseph focuses on the
historical, cultural, chronological, and theological
correspondences as convergence. This not only illuminates the
historical Jesus' teachings as distinctive, developing and
extending earlier Jewish ethical and halakhic thought, it also
clarifies the emergence of early Christianity in relationship to
Palestinian Essenism. By bringing this holistic analysis of the
evidence to bear, Joseph adds a powerful and insightful voice to
the decades-long debate surrounding the Essenes and Christianity.
Most Jesus specialists agree that the Temple incident led directly
to Jesus' arrest, but the precise relationship between Jesus and
the Temple's administration remains unclear. Jesus and the Temple
examines this relationship, exploring the reinterpretation of Torah
observance and traditional Temple practices that are widely
considered central components of the early Jesus movement.
Challenging a growing tendency in contemporary scholarship to
assume that the earliest Christians had an almost uniformly
positive view of the Temple's sacrificial system, Simon J. Joseph
addresses the ambiguous, inconsistent, and contradictory views on
sacrifice and the Temple in the New Testament. This volume fills a
significant gap in the literature on sacrifice in Jewish
Christianity. It introduces a new hypothesis positing Jesus'
enactment of a program of radically nonviolent eschatological
restoration, an orientation that produced Jesus' conflicts with his
contemporaries and inspired the first attributions of sacrificial
language to his death.
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