Bridging between Sister Religions

Isaac Kalimi (Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is Gutenberg-Research-Professor in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies and Ancient Israelite History, and Fellow of the Gutenberg Forschungskolleg at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Senior Research Associate at the University of Chicago, and Foreign Member of the Belgian Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences. He has published numerous books and articles in biblical studies, ancient Israelite history and historiography, and rabbinic literature and thought.

• AbbreviationsList of ContributorsPart One: The Man and the Book 1. An Introduction, Isaac Kalimi2. Biography and Bibliography of John T. Townsend, Isaac KalimiPart Two: Hebrew Bible and Its Interpretation3. Divine Vulnerability: Reflections on the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22), James L. Crenshaw4. Shifting Emphasis: Examples of Early and Modern Reception of the Book of Amos, Göran Eidevall5. Interpreting the Writing on the Wall in Daniel 5, Anne E. GardnerPart Three: New Testament and Its Interpretation6. The Jewishness of the Gospel of Mark, Lawrence M. Wills7. Jesus’ Work as a Healer in Light of Jewish Purity Laws, Cecilia Wassen8. The Ἰουδαῖοι in the Gospel of John, Robert L. Brawley9. Acts, the “Parting of the Ways,” and the Use of the Term “Christians”, Joseph B. Tyson10. Early Christian Attitudes toward ‘Things Jewish’ as Narrated by Textual Variants in Acts: A Case Study of the D-Textual Cluster, Eldon J. EppPart Four: Talmudic and Midrashic Studies11. Some Aspects of Interreligious Polemic in the Babylonian Talmud, Yaakov Elman12. Egyptian Motifs in Late Antique Mosaics and Rabbinic Texts, Rivka Ulmer13. The Binding Fragments of Midrash Tanhuma (Buber) from the Municipal Library of Trier, Andreas LehnardtPart Five: Jewish – Christian Relationship14. “We Love the God Who Loved Us First”: The Second Blessing of the Shema Liturgy, Reuven Kimelman15. Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate, and Renewal in Judaism and Christianity, Bruce Chilton16. Hanukkah and Community Identity in 1-2 Maccabees and John, Michael W. DugganIndex of AuthorsIndex of Scripture

“an engaging and impressive scholarly work.” - Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, in: The Catholic Biblical Quarterly 81.3 (2019)