The Challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-44189-7
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 7, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 522 g

Reihe: Studies on the Children of Abraham

The aim of The Challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is to address the theological issues arising when different ancient religious groups inside three Abrahamic religions attempted to understand or define their opinion on the Mosaic Torah. Twelve articles explore various instances of accepting, modifying, ignoring, criticizing, and vilifying the Mosaic Torah. They demonstrate a range of perspectives of ways in which the Mosaic Torah has formed a challenge. These challenges include Persian religious policy (when the Mosaic Torah was formed), intra-Jewish discussions (e.g. Samaritans), religious practices (the New Testament debates of ritual laws) and interreligious debates on validity of the Torah stipulations (with Christians and Muslims). All the papers were discussed at the international conference, “The Challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, organized by Åbo Akademi University and held in Karkku, Finland, 17-18 August, 2017.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Laato, Antti

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Islam & Islamische Studien Islam & Islamische Studien
• Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Notes on Contributors

Part 1 Hebrew Bible

1 Deuteronomy and the Beginning of the Mosaic Torah

Kåre Berge

2 The Torah in the Book of the Twelve Prophets

Jacques van Ruiten

3 The Mosaic Torah among the Samaritans: “The Tables That Were Sundered from Divine Essence”

Magnar Kartveit

Part 2 New Testament

4 What Should a Christ-Believer Eat and What Not? Food Laws in the Gospels and Paul

Lukas Bormann

5 ‘Circumcision of the Heart’ in Paul: From a Metaphor of Torah Obedience to a Metaphor of Torah Polemics?

Guido Baltes

Part 3 Patristic Literature before Islam

6 Jewish Believers in Jesus and the Mosaic Law: The Opinion of Justin Martyr

Antti Laato

7 Forgetting an Epic Battle: Did the Early Church Understand the Debate between Paul and His Judaistic Opponents? Preliminary Notes on the Role of the Torah in the Early Church

Erkki Koskenniemi

8 Faustus and Augustine: A Manichaean-Catholic Debate on the Mosaic Torah

Anni Maria Laato

Part 4 Jewish Writings

9 Summarizing the Jewish Law in Antiquity: Examples from Aristeas, Philo, and the New Testament

Cor de Vos

10 Rabbinic Exegetical Debates with Samaritans

Günter Stemberger

Part 5 Encountering Islam

11 “Show Me in the Law”: The Use of the Argument of the Law (Torah) in the Dispute between the Muslim Emir and the Patriarch Yuhannon

Martin Tamcke

12 Torah in the Christian–Islamic Polemics of Theodore Abu Qurrah and ?Abd al-Jabbar

Serafim Seppälä

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Antti Laato is Professor in Old Testament exegetics with Judaic studies at Åbo Akademi University, Turku Finland. Since 2006, he has been leader in the international network Study for the Reception History of the Bible. Recently he has edited Understanding the Spiritual Meaning of Jerusalem in Three Abrahamic Religions (STCA 6; Leiden: Brill, 2019).

Contributors are Kåre Berge, Jacques van Ruiten, Magnar Kartveit, Lukas Bormann, Guido Baltes, Antti Laato, Erkki Koskenniemi, Anni Maria Laato, Cor de Vos, Günter Stemberger, Martin Tamcke, Serafim Seppälä.