Bridging Between Sister Religions - Studies of Jewish and Christian Scriptures Offered in Honor of Prof. John T. Townsend

This collection honors Professor John T. Townsend through fresh essays on the interpretation of the common Jewish and Christian Scripture - the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament - as well as its two off-shoots, Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament interpretation and Jewish-Christian relations.

About the author

Isaac Kalimi (Ph.D., The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is Gutenberg-Research-Professor in Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies and Ancient Israelite History, and Fellow of the Gutenberg Forschungskolleg at Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz, Senior Research Associate at the University of Chicago, and Foreign Member of the Belgian Royal Academy for Overseas Sciences. He has published numerous books and articles in biblical studies, ancient Israelite history and historiography, and rabbinic literature and thought.

Product details

• Assisted by: Isaac Kalimi (Editor)
• Publisher: Brill
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 19.08.2016
• EAN: 9789004324534
• ISBN: 978-90-04-32453-4
• No. of pages: 360
• Dimensions: 155 mm x 239 mm x 25 mm
• Weight: 635 g
• Series: Brill Reference Library of Jud
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Religious writings, prayers, songbooks, religious meditations