The Bible With and Without Jesus How Jews and Christians Read the Same Stories Differently

Amy-Jill Levine, Marc Zvi Brettler

eBook - 2020

The editors of TheJewish Annotated New Testament show how and whyJews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts – including passagesfrom the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms – differently. Exploring andexplaining these diverse perspectives, they reveal more clearly Scripture'sbeauty and power. Esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler takereaders on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible passages quoted inthe New Testament to show what the texts meant in their original contexts andthen how Jews and Christians, over time, understood those same texts. Passages includethe creation of the world, the role of Adam and Eve, the Suffering Servant ofIsiah, the book of Jonah, and Psal...m 22, whose words, "My God, my God, why haveyou forsaken me," Jesus quotes as he dies on the cross.Comparing various... more