Jewish and Pauline Studies

Davies, W.D.

Religion & Spirituality

SPCK.

Christian Origins and Judaism (The Jewish People: History, Religion, Literature)

Books for Libraries

Gospel and the Land: Early Christianity and Jewish Territorial Doctrine

The Gospel and the land;: Early Christianity and Jewish territorial doctrine,

University of California Press

Davies explains that the belief in the special relationship between the land and people of Israel has been an integral part of Judaism from Biblical times

The Territorial Dimension of Judaism (Quantum Books)

History

World

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982.

Territorial Dimension of Judaism (Quantum Books) (Volume 23)

Judaism

The Territorial Dimension of Judaism (Volume 23) (Quantum Books)

In The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount, first published by the Cambridge University Press in 1964 and issued as a paperback in 1976, Professor Davies made a new approach to the Sermon, placing it in its historical setting within the context of the world from which it originated. This shorter book sets out the main lines of his argument in a more accessible form so as to interest the widest possible readership. The Sermon has been described both as a pernicious document, and as the finest statement of the highest morality ever produced. Professor Davies examines it in five settings. First he considers how Matthew himself intended the Sermon to be understood, placing it in its setting within the Gospel as a whole and showing that Matthew presented Jesus as a second Moses and lawgiver. He then considers it in the setting of Jewish Messianic expectation and the contemporary Judaism, where he shows that there were certain forces at work which led to the presentation of Jesus in this light. He discusses whether this concept was an innovation or whether forces in the early church prepared the way for this interpretation, and finally he debates whether Matthew was departing from the mind of Jesus himself.

The Sermon on the Mount

Christian Books & Bibles

Cambridge University Press

The Cambridge History of Judaism: Volume 4, The Period of the Mishnah

Finkelstein, L.

A work placing the Sermon on the Mount in the historical setting from which it emerged. Five settings are Matthew and the "Church," the world of Messianic expectations and Judaism, Gnosticism and the Dead Sea Sect, movements within the Church such as Paulinism, and the relation of the Sermon to the teachings of Jesus.

The Setting of the Sermon on the Mount

This work is an abbreviated version of the monumental, three-volume 'Matthew, A Critical and Exegetical Commentary' in the International Critical Commentary series (ICC). Davies and Allison's magisterial work is considered to be the standard work on Matthew and is still a best-selling title. Retaining all the important features of the ICC volumes, this Shorter Commentary includes the new translation of the Gospel as well as a condensed introduction and a summary of the main exegetical points in a non-technical verse-by-verse commentary. For those who lack the linguistic and historical grounding, or the time, to deal with the ICC volume, this shorter volume is an accessible, affordable and practical alternative.

Matthew 19-28: Volume 3 (International Critical Commentary)

Jr., Dale C. Allison

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