TAYLOR, J.E., The Irnmerser: John the Baptist within Second Temple Judaism (Studying the Historical Jesus; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997), pp. xvi + 360. US$30.00. ISBN 0-8028-4236-4

1998 ◽  
Vol 20 (70) ◽  
pp. 122-123
Keyword(s):  
Second Temple ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
Grand Rapids

Response to the Respondents: Competition, Qumran and Supersessionism

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 99-133
Author(s):  
Joel Marcus
Keyword(s):  
Second Temple ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
History Of ◽  
Qumran Community ◽  
The Way

Abstract The critics of JBHT in this issue have questioned three main aspects of the book: its assertion that early Christians competed with people who believed that John the Baptist was the principal figure in the history of salvation, its assertion that early in his career the Baptist was a member of the Qumran community, and the way in which the book situates the Baptist in relation to Second Temple Judaism in general. The article addresses these concerns, rebutting certain objections but acknowledging areas in which the book could have been more nuanced or further developed.

Jesus the Pharisee: Leon Modena, the Historical Jesus, and Renaissance Venice

2019 ◽  
Vol 17 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 81-101
Author(s):  
Cristiana Facchini
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Early Modern Period ◽  
Second Temple ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
History Of Christianity ◽  
Ecclesiastical History ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Republic

This article is devoted to Leon Modena’s anti-Christian polemical work Magen ve-herev (1643 ca.) as a useful source for the reconstruction of notions about the historical Jesus in the early modern period. In this work, Modena depicts Jesus in a sympathetic way, placing his religious activity against the backdrop of second Temple Judaism. Modena’s Jesus is fully Jewish, and Magen ve-herev offers different perspectives on the religious and historical context of Jesus’ life, and on the development of Christianity. The text is interpreted not exclusively against the backdrop of Jewish anti-Christian polemics but as the result of an increasing interest in the history of Christianity and ecclesiastical history, mainly as a response to the religious strife that resonated in the Republic of Venice and its ghetto.

Raphael, Azariah and Jesus of Nazareth: Tobit's Significance for Early Christology

2012 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-39
Author(s):  
Phillip Muñoa
Keyword(s):  
Second Temple ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
Historical Jesus ◽  
First Time

This article demonstrates that the apocryphal text of Tobit sheds important light on notions of deliverance that were emerging in Second Temple Judaism. Raphael, the angel-deliverer of Tobit, depicts a stage in the development of angelic mediation that stands apart from angelic deliverers in previous Jewish texts, and can be significantly associated with early Christianity's view of Jesus. Here, for the first time, is a heavenly being who appears as a nondescript Israelite and brings news of hope, healing and demonic liberation to suffering Israelites of little account. Raphael offers a precedent for Christian accounts that the historical Jesus was a preexistent savior who lived as a simple Israelite.

Why is John the Baptist Used as a Foil for Jesus? Leaps of Faith and Oblique Anti-Judaism in Contemporary Scholarship

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 170-196
Author(s):  
Fernando Bermejo-Rubio
Keyword(s):  
Second Temple ◽  
Second Temple Judaism ◽  
Compelling Evidence ◽  
John The Baptist ◽  
Scholarly Discourse

Despite the existence of some differences between John the Baptist and Jesus the Galilean, there is no compelling evidence allowing us to infer that they were significantly contrasting characters, even less to postulate any significant opposition between them: the available sources are witnesses to the striking similarities in their messages, their radical personalities, their destinies, and their reception by their contemporaries. The widespread scholarly discourse of a considerable discontinuity between these two preachers of Second Temple Judaism is accordingly unwarranted and unreliable. What is even worse, there are reasons to suspect that the use of John the Baptist as a foil for Jesus might be the last Christian avatar of the centuries-long tendency consisting of contrasting Jesus to Judaism.

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