商品簡介
This volume investigates the Jewish cultural matrix that gave rise to the veneration of Jesus in the early Christianity. Specifically, this study examines Christian origins, the context of Jewish monotheism, Jewish divine mediator figures and the Christian practice of worshipping Jesus.
作者簡介
Carey C. Newman, Ph.D. (1989) in Philosophy of Religion, Baylor University, Waco, Texas, is Director of the Institute for the Study of Christian Origins and Editor, Academic Books, Westminster John Knox Press. His publications include Jesus and the Restoration of Israel: A Critical Assessment with Responses of N. T. Wright’s Jesus and the Victory of God (IVP, 1999) and Paul's Glory-Christology: Tradition and Rhetoric (Brill, 1992).James R. Davila, Ph.D. (1988) Harvard University, is a Lecturer in Early Jewish Studies at the Divinity School of the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. His dissertation, an edition of unpublished biblical scrolls from Qumran, has been published in revised form in volume 12 of the Discoveries in the Judean Desert series (Oxford: Clarendon, 1994).Gladys S. Lewis, Ph.D. (1991) Oklahoma State University, is Associate Professor of English and American Literature at the University of Central Oklahoma. Her latest book is Message, Messenger, and Response: Puritan Forms and Cultural Reformation in Harriet Beecher Stowe's UNCLE TOM'S CABIN (University Press of America,1994).
