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...using the term not in the modern sense but referring to a particular school of ancient Greek philosophers, Diogenes among them, who advocated virtue and self-control. Like them, he made ample use of a biting sense of humor ("Let the dead bury their dead"). "Jesus wasn't reforming Judaism," Mack insists. "He was just taking up a Hellenistic kind of social criticism...
This new confidence was signaled in 1985 when Oxford University's E.P. Sanders proclaimed in Jesus and Judaism, "The dominant view today seems to be that we can know pretty well what Jesus was out to accomplish, that we can know a lot about what he said, and that those two things make sense within the world of 1st century Judaism." Thanks to historical and textual research, "in a sense we are much closer to the New Testament than scholars were 500 or 1,000 years ago," says Father James Swetnam of Rome's Pontifical Biblical Institute...
...does work that is set solidly in the Jewish tradition," Thiemann said. "Christianity and Judaism have been seen to have a sibling role and tradition. But Jon is rethinking the relationship between Judaism and Christianity to see what is common and what is different...
...rethinking the role of the Bible, and his work is in conversation with that of Christian scholars while at the same time of interest to scholars of Judaism," Theimann said...
Levenson said he will teach two full-year courses for the Divinity School beginning this September. One, called "Judaism: The Liturgical Year", will focus on the Jewish calendar and how Jewish texts are intergrated into the Jewish lifestyle and history. The other class will be a seminar focusing on the first 11 books of the Torah and how their original "contexts" have been perceived throughout history, he said...