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Howard Marshall, University of Aberdeen "Oskar Skarsaune's In the Shadow of the Temple is outstanding and will not only serve well the general reader, for whom the author writes, it will also serve well the scholar and student alike. Skarsaune has produced a gem that deftly lays out the major events, institutions, beliefs and figures of Judaism of late antiquity and how they shaped early Christianity. This reader-friendly book is a must.
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If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Learn more about Amazon Prime. Oskar Skarsaune makes a fresh contribution to our understanding of the development of the early church in its practice e. This book offers the new perspective that Christians were in ongoing and deep conversation with Jews during the early centuries leading up to Constantine. The common perception of a drastic "parting of the ways" after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.
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Notwithstanding the fact that there were points of bitterness and strife, the relationship is better viewed as that of a younger and older sibling. There is much evidence of interaction between the early Christians and rabbinic Judaism, both at the level of leadership and laypeople, and this left its impression on the church. Skarsaune gives us numerous fascinating episodic and topical glimpses into this untold story.
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There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. This has been my favorite books for the last several years. It describes the relationship between Judaism and the early church and their eventual separation. It was fascinating to hear about James the half brother of Jesus who was the acting bishop of the Jerusalem church and interesting information about Christ's relatives. Mary and Joseph were from that part of the world and had many relatives, some of whom came to believe in him.
This is not a novel idea, but he brings it out well and in such a way that the layperson can understand it. One person found this helpful 2 people found this helpful. Oscar Skarsaune's book "In the Shadow of the Temple" is an outstanding work that demonstrates how Christianity cannot be understood without understanding the Jewish soil from which Christianity emerged. The Incarnate Word" - Skarsane takes on the popular view that the notion of Jesus as divine was a pagan intrusion into the putatively monotheistic world of Judaism.
Skarsane points out the surprising truth which is that it was the pagans who found the idea of a god really becoming a human being to be disgusting, but, to the contrary, Judaism had a long-established "Wisdom tradition" which personified the divine attribute of God's "wisdom. Skarsaune intended his book as a text book that would be accessible to the general reader. He divides his work into four sections. The second develops the emergence of Christianity out of Judaism into its historic role as a gentile church.
The third looks at the persistence of Jewish ideas, tropes and practices in Christianity during the first centuries. The fourth and shortest section examines the further development of Christianity as the favored religion of the Roman Empire. The chief virtue of Skarsaune's book is the detail it provides on innumerable subjects. It doesn't advance a single coherent argument - nor is it intended to do so.
Instead it makes many arguments and inferences from Skarsaune's assessment of the data. Consequently, this review will dip into a few of the topics that Skarsaune covers.
In the Shadow of the Temple: Jewish Influences on Early Christianity
For example, I found Skausane's description of Jerusalem as a "Temple with a City," rather than being a city with a temple, to be a fascinating and paradigm-shifting way of looking at the culture in which Jesus lived. When that relationship is understood, then the significance of money-changing, temple politics, purity rules, the number of Jewish males engaged in Temple occupations and all those journeys that Jesus made to Jerusalem become more apparent when this relationship - so very different from the church-community relationships of our world is understood.
As a Catholic, I found many of the traditions of my own faith more explicable in light of the Jewish origins of Christianity. Things like a liturgy and a liturgical calendar would have been "common sense" to the earliest Christian-Jewish believers who introduced their faith to gentiles See p. Likewise, as Skarsaune points out, Paul's deference to the High Priest, who had a charisma of authority because of his office notwithstanding his personal failings or how he was installed in office has a resonance with the office of the papacy See p.
Skarsaune also points out that early Christians, such as Justin Martyr, did not repudiate the concept of being under God's law; Justin Martyr in his dialogue with Trypho accepted the notion that there was a moral law written in the hearts of men which continued even when the ritual laws of the Old Covenant had been ended. Other Christians spiritualized the Old Law's ritual elements, but acknowledged their continuing force in a spiritualized form.
This is a far cry from a clear dichotomy between "law" and "gospel" that informs the bible reading of many modern Christians. Likewise, Skarsaune's discussion of the incorporation of Jewish baptismal practices into Christianity tends to show that baptism for Christians was very important.
Conversion to Judaism involved a ritual cleaning and a liturgical catechesis whereby the convert rejected the devil in the worship of idols. The ritual cleansing - a baptism - defined the believer's entrance into a new life after having almost literally died with respect to his old life, e. According to Skarsaune, so complete was this new identity that a convert could theoretically marry a member of his former family. Interestingly, Skarsaune had previously pointed out the linkage, but also the distinction, between "belief" and "confession.
For it is with your heart that you believe and are justified, and it is with your mouth that you confess and are saved. This may sound very "theological," but it all became very concrete when a person asks for admission to the people of the Messiah through baptism. Then it is necessary to ask the candidate the question do you really believe? And the candidate has to affirm that belief. With that focus, we have to see a particular complimentarity of Romans Were they tying the baptismal confession to the formal rejection of Satan and idol-worship that was found in the liturgy of conversion in Judaism?
Hence, is Paul's reference to "confess and are saved" in Romans Based on Skarsaune's descriptions of Jewish practices, it seems that Paul and Peter were talking about the same thing. In short, understanding the Jewish tradition that informed the first Christians' "concrete" understanding of baptism can make the theology of baptism much more "concrete" for modern Christians. The resonance between Judaism, early Christianity and Catholicism may make the book challenging for modern Protestants. However, at times, it is also challenging for Catholics. For example, Skarsaune makes an argument that the Christian Church always recognized the distinction between the Jewish canon and the deuterocanonical books of the Old Testament.
The author does a remarkable job of showing how very Jewish the early church was in its thinking — for centuries. Of course, over time the church was taken over by Greek influences, but in the early centuries, the church was deeply rooted in Judaism, even as the church became largely Gentile. The author notes that even centuries later, the church leadership felt compelled to order the members to stop attending synagogue with the Jews, because many Christians were evidently worshipping with their Jewish neighbors.
When we understand this background, we are better prepared to deal with the scholarship of N.
Wright, James Dunn, and E. Sanders, who are dramatically enriching our understanding of the New Testament by interpreting the scriptures in light of new studies in the Jewish roots of Christianity. Unlike Sitting at the Feet of Rabbi Jesus: To understand Jesus and the things he taught you have to understand Jewish customs as viewed in the old testament. Jesus was very much a Jew.
To understand church history the influence of Judaism for centuries in particular changes how you'll be viewed in the cof C if you open your mouth to often or too loudly in a bible class.