Contents

List of Abbreviations

List of Contributors

Part 1 The Man and the Book

Chapter 1 An Introduction

Chapter 2 Biography and Bibliography of John T. Townsend

Part 2 Hebrew Bible and Its Interpretation

Chapter 3 Divine Vulnerability: Reflections on the Binding of Issac (Genesis 22)

Chapter 4 Shifting Emphasis: Examples of Early and Modern Reception of the Book of Amos

Chapter 5 Interpreting the Writing on the Wall in Daniel 5

Part 3 New Testament and Its Interpretation

Chapter 6 The Jewishness of the Gospel of Mark

Chapter 7 Jesus’ Work as a Healer in Light of Jewish Purity Laws

Chapter 8 The Ἰουδαῖοι in the Gospel of John

Chapter 9 Acts, the “Parting of the Ways” and the Use of the Term ‘Christians’

Chapter 10 Early Christian Attitudes toward ‘Things Jewish’ as Narrated by Textual Variants in Acts: A Case Study of the D-Textual Cluster

Part 4 Talmudic and Midrashic Studies

Chapter 11 Some Aspects of Interreligious Polemic in the Babylonian Talmud

Chapter 12 Egyptian Motifs in Late Antique Mosaics and Rabbinic Texts

Chapter 13 The Binding Fragments of Midrash Tanhuma (Buber) from the Municipal Library of Trier

Part 5 Jewish–Christian Relationship

Chapter 14 “We Love the God Who Loved Us First”: The Second Blessing of the Shema Liturgy

Chapter 15 Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate and Renewal in Judaism and Christianity

Chapter 16 Hanukkah and Community Identity in 1–2 Maccabees and John

Index of Authors

Index of Scripture