By Jacob Neusner
Read Online or Download A Rabbi Talks with Jesus PDF
Best comparative religion books
1915. Christians suppose that they have got a divine monopoly on fact. they don't. This e-book irrefutably indicates how a lot of Christianity's symbols are from a long way past ''pagan'' resources. This ebook doesn't disparage Christianity yet presents a connecting hyperlink for what has been a continuing resource of symbolic wisdom passed all the way down to us from the ancients.
From the start, the Abrahamic faiths-Judaism, Christianity, and Islam-have under pressure the significance of transmitting spiritual id from one iteration to the following. this day, that maintaining venture hasn't ever been extra challenged. Will youngsters have a religion to lead them? How can religion traditions anchor non secular attachments during this secular, skeptical tradition?
Jews, Christians and Muslims describe their origins with shut connection with the narrative of Abraham, together with the complicated tale of Abraham's relation to Hagar. This quantity sketches the heritage of interpretation of a few of the most important passages during this narrative, now not least the verses which country that during Abraham all of the international locations of the earth could be blessed.
From Temple to Meeting House: The Phenomenology and Theology of Places of Worship
Booklet by way of Turner, Harold W.
- Pious Passion: The Emergence of Modern Fundamentalism in the United States and Iran
- Totems: The Transformative Power of Your Personal Animal Totem
- The Sovereign All-Creating Mind-The Motherly Buddha: A Translation of Kun Byed Rgyal Po'I Mdo (S U N Y Series in Buddhist Studies)
- The Samaritan Version of Saadya Gaon’s Translation of the Pentateuch: Critical Edition and Study of MS London BL OR7562 and Related MSS
Extra info for A Rabbi Talks with Jesus
Example text
I think we owe him a serious hearing, and that means a fresh and interested encounter, not merely genuflection and obedience, on the one side, or a casual nod, on the other. So I state very simply: I can see myself meeting this man and, with courtesy, arguing with him. It is my form of respect, the only compliment I crave from others, the only serious tribute I pay to the people I take seriously - and therefore respect and even love. I can see myself not only meeting and arguing with him, taking up specific things he says and challenging him on the basis of our shared Torah, the Scriptures that Christians would later on adopt as the "Old Testament," but I can imagine myself also saying, "Friend, you go your way, I'll go mine.
But that is our task, too, if we are to have a serious argument about important truths. And it is time, I think, for some specific teachings of Matthew's Jesus to receive sustained and serious attention as not platitudes and truisms but contentious and vigorous propositions, demanding assent attained through argument. For, as you read the stories Matthew tells, you cannot avoid the simple fact that Jesus was a man who said things he thought new and important, and who claimed that his teachings formed the correct way to carry out and to fulfill the Torah, the teachings that God had given to Moses at Mount Sinai.
Several generations of Jewish apologists have fulsomely praised this "Galilean miracle worker," placing him in the tradition of Elijah and the Hasidic rabbis of the eighteenth century and afterward. Other generations have praised Jesus as a great rabbi. These evasions of the Christian claim to truth will serve no more. Christianity does not believe in a Galilean miracle worker, nor does Christianity worship a rabbi. For my part, I will not evade. I will not concede. I will not praise with excessive, irrelevant compliments someone else's God: it is demeaning and dishonest.