The Jewish Annotated New Testament, 2nd ed.

by Amy-Jill Levine; Marc Zvi Brettler

Publisher:

Oxford University Press

, 2017

Overview

First published in 2011, The Jewish Annotated New Testament was a groundbreaking work, bringing the New Testament’s Jewish background to the attention of students, clergy, and general readers. In this new edition, eighty Jewish scholars bring together unparalleled scholarship to shed new light on the text. This thoroughly revised and greatly expanded second edition brings even more helpful information and new insights to the study of the New Testament.

Introductions to each New Testament book, containing guidance for reading and specific information about how the book relates to the Judaism of the period, have been revised and augmented, and in some cases newly written.

Annotations on the text—some revised, some new to this edition—provide verse-by-verse commentary.

The thirty essays from the first edition are thoroughly updated, and there are twenty-four new essays, on topics such as “Mary in Jewish Tradition,” “Christology,” and “Messianic Judaism.”

For Christian readers The Jewish Annotated New Testament offers a window into the first-century world of Judaism from which the New Testament springs. There are explanations of Jewish concepts such as food laws and rabbinic argumentation. It also provides a much-needed corrective to many centuries of Christian misunderstandings of the Jewish religion.

For Jewish readers, this volume provides the chance to encounter the New Testament—a text of vast importance in Western European and American culture—with no religious agenda and with guidance from Jewish experts in theology, history, and Jewish and Christian thought. It also explains Christian practices, such as the Eucharist.

The Jewish Annotated New Testament, Second Edition is an essential volume that places the New Testament writings in a context that will enlighten readers of any faith or none.

Key Features

• Places the New Testament writings in a context that will enlighten readers of any faith
• Provides a much-needed corrective to many centuries of Christian misunderstandings of the Jewish religion
• Offers a window into the first-century world of Judaism from which the New Testament springs

Contents

The New Testament

The Essays

• History
• Society
• Movements
• Jews and Gentiles
• Religious Practice
• Religious Belief
• Literature
• Responses to the New Testament

Endorsements

The Jewish Annotated New Testament makes a wonderful contribution to Jewish appreciation of the New Testament, on the one hand, and Christian appreciation of the Jewish dimension of New Testament literature, Jesus, and his disciples, on the other...We owe [the editors and their many contributors] our thanks for putting together such a useful and positive contribution to New Testament interpretation and to much better, more accurate, and fairer Jewish and Christian understanding. I recommend this book enthusiastically and without reservation.

—Craig A. Evans, Journal of the Jesus Movement in its Jewish Setting

This new commentary on the New Testament certainly adds an important voice to modern NT commentary and is essential reading not only for biblical scholars but seminarians and preachers.

—Catholic Books Review

This comprehensive volume provides a more critical and in-depth look at the Jewish context of the NT for both scholars and laypeople.

—Religious Studies Review

Product Details

• Title: The Jewish Annotated New Testament: New Revised Standard Version Bible Translation
• Authors: Amy-Jill Levine, Marc Zvi Brettler
• Edition: Second Edition
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Print Publication Date: 2017
• Logos Release Date: 2023
• Pages: 824
• Era: era:contemporary
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subjects: Bible. N.T. › Commentaries; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Bible. N.T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc., Jewish; Jews in the N.T; Christianity and other religions › Judaism; Judaism › Relations--Christianity
• Resource ID: LLS:JWSHNNTTDTSTMNT
• Resource Type: Bible Notes
• Metadata Last Updated: 2023-11-10T17:51:17Z