The Bible With And Without Jesus - Amy Jill Levine

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The editors of The Jewish Annotated New Testament show how and why Jews and Christians read many of the same Biblical texts - including passages from the Pentateuch, the Prophets, and the Psalms - differently. Exploring and explaining these diverse perspectives, they reveal more clearly Scripture's beauty and power.
Esteemed Bible scholars and teachers Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Z. Brettler take readers on a guided tour of the most popular Hebrew Bible passages quoted in the New Testament to show what the texts meant in their original contexts and then how Jews and Christians, over time, understood those same texts. Passages include the creation of the world, the role of Adam and Eve, the Suffering Servant of Isiah, the book of Jonah, and Psalm 22, whose words, "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me," Jesus quotes as he dies on the cross.

Comparing various interpretations - historical, literary, and theological - of each ancient text, Levine and Brettler offer deeper understandings of the original narratives and their many afterlives. They show how the text speaks to different generations under changed circumstances, and so illuminate the Bible's ongoing significance. By understanding the depth and variety by which these passages have been, and can be, understood, The Bible With and Without Jesus does more than enhance our religious understandings, it helps us to see the Bible as a source of inspiration for any and all readers.

Table of Contents
Preface ix

A Note on Translations and Abbreviations xv

Chapter 1 On Bibles and their Interpreters 1

Same Stories, Different Bibles 3

Christian and Jewish Bibles 7

On Interpretation 14

Interpreting Divinely Revealed Texts 21

Jewish Interpretations: Two Jews, Three Opinions 26

Christian Interpretation: Aligned with Belief 32

Chapter 2 The Problem and Promise of Prophecy 41

Prophecy 43

Prooftexts 49

Polemics 54

Possibilities 60

Chapter 3 The Creation of the World 67

In the Beginning 69

Making Order from Chaos 74

Wind, Spirit, Wisdom, Logos 82

"Let Us Make Humankind …" 88

Later Jewish Interpretation 93

Chapter 4 Adam and Eve 99

Death, Domination, and Divorce 101

The Garden of Eden 105

Eating Forbidden Fruit 112

The Garden of Eden in the Bible Outside of Genesis 119

Original Sin in the Hebrew Bible? 121

Adam and Eve in Early Judaism 123

Later Jewish Tradition 128

Chapter 5 "You Are a Priest Forever" 135

Priesthood in Ancient Israel 137

Jesus the High Priest, After the Order of Melchizedek 141

Genesis 14: The First Appearance of Melchizedek 148

Psalm 110: An Enigmatic Royal Psalm 154

Melchizedek in Later Jewish Tradition 165

The Problem of Supersessionism in the Epistle to the Hebrews 171

Chapter 6 "An Eye for an Eye" and "Turn the Other Cheek" 179

Antitheses or Extensions? 181

But I Say to You… 186

On an Eye for an Eye 201

The Hebrew Bible's Context 206

The Struggle Between Justice and Mercy 212

Chapter 7 "Drink My Blood": Sacrifice and Atonement 219

The Sacrificial Lamb 221

Sacrifices in Ancient Israel 227

Passover 236

Human Sacrifice in the Hebrew Bible 238

Nonsacrificial Atonement 241

Sacrifice in Postbiblical Judaism 245

The Blood of Circumcision 248

The Blood of the Covenant 252

Chapter 8 "A Virgin Will Conceive and Bear a Child" 255

To Fulfill What Had Been Spoken 257

Isaiah in His Context 261

From "Young Woman" to "Virgin" 271

From Prediction to Polemic 275

Chapter 9 Isaiah's Suffering Servant 285

By His Bruises We Are Healed 287

The "Suffering Servant" in His Historical Context 295

The Servant's History in Later Jewish and Christian Traditions 304

Chapter 10 The Sign of Jonah 313

Jesus and the Sign of Jonah 315

The Story of Jonah in Its Earliest Historical Context 320

Jonah in Christian Eyes 332

Jonah in Jewish Eyes 337

Chapter 11 "My God, My God, Why Have You Forsaken Me?" 345

Jesus and Psalm 22 347

An Aside: Other Psalms in the New Testament 354

Psalm 22 in the Scriptures of Israel 358

When Psalms Become Prophecy 368

Psalm 22 in Jewish Sources 371

Chapter 12 Son of Man 381

Human and/or Divine 383

In Search of the Son of Man 387

"Son of Man": From Human to Superhuman 393

The Son of Man Elsewhere in the New Testament 404

The Postbiblical Future of the Son of Man 408

Chapter 13 Conclusion: From Polemic to Possibility 413

The New Covenant: "'At That Time,' Says the Lord…" 415

In the Interim 419

What We Learn 423

Acknowledgments 427

Notes 429

Author Index 467

Primary Texts Index 475

Subject Index 485

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