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1. 1. Judaism In The Beginning Of Christianity

   

   A concise study of the diverse Judaisms of the late Second Temple era, explaining how law, temple worship, and communal institutions shaped Jewish life and provided the matrix from which the early Christian movement emerged and later diverged, especially after 70 CE. Drawing on Josephus, Philo, the Dead Sea Scrolls, the New Testament, and early rabbinic literature, it distinguishes among Pharisees, Sadducees, apocalyptic groups, and nascent rabbinism, while warning against retrojecting later rabbinic norms into the first century. It frames Christianity and rabbinic Judaism as parallel, methodologically distinct responses to shared crises within the same religious world.

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2. 2. A Rabbi Talks With Jesus, Revised Edition

   

   In a respectful imagined dialogue between a traditional Jewish teacher and the figure of Jesus, the book explores how first-century Jewish thought and rabbinic law shape very different readings of Jesus’ words and actions, clarifying misunderstandings between Judaism and Christianity; it examines central issues — messiahship, Torah observance, atonement, interpretation of scripture, and historical context — to show why Jews did not accept the Christian claims and to promote mutual understanding while challenging both communities to think more critically and charitably about one another.

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