Targumist's Jesus - Mixing the NT, Targums, DSS, and the Talmud
https://www.logos.com/product/56740/from-jesus-to-the-church-the-first-christian-generation
This just got shipped, but it's only $20 anyway, if you missed the pre-pub. It's by Craig Evans.
If you're fascinated by the Targums, and want to see how they could be used to plug into Jesus, this book is for you. And if you have the Aramaic Bible (lucky you), the Talmud, and the DSS, you'll be in heaven (on earth). Evans mixes them all up, as if they're all pretty much at the same time!
Best of all, there is almost no hint they might be centuries apart. You'll be so flabergasted, you can't stop reading, as the Jesus family takes on the .... well, I don't want to spoil it for you.
This is a Targumist's dream come true. I actually agree with his thesis ... I'd just not have the guts.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Thanks Denise - It looks like a fascinating book indeed. I have my copy and look forward to exploring this fascinating world. Keep well Paul
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Just bought it and really looking forward to reading it. Thanks for pointing it out.
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Anthony Keating said:
Just bought it and really looking forward to reading it. Thanks for pointing it out.
Same here [H]
Gold package, and original language material and ancient text material, SIL and UBS books, discourse Hebrew OT and Greek NT. PC with Windows 11
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I just read the blurb on the book's page. Can anyone tell me what "the arly church" might be? [;)]
It does look interesting — perhaps almost as interesting as The Martian Chronicles.
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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George Somsel said:
"the arly church"
I calculated that you are awake at 2 am in your local time. That's arly.
Gold package, and original language material and ancient text material, SIL and UBS books, discourse Hebrew OT and Greek NT. PC with Windows 11
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Maybe the blurb-ician is from Scotland.
Ignoring the Arizona desert of sources, one has to wonder how James (just one of course) became so influential, leaving almost nothing behind. And how the jews managed to successfully blow themselves up in the face of a talented army not too distant. The end-of-the-age timing clue had to be strong, and not believable by the jewish leaders.
"If myth is ideology in narrative form, then scholarship is myth with footnotes." B. Lincolm 1999.
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Veli Voipio said:George Somsel said:
"the arly church"
I calculated that you are awake at 2 am in your local time. That's arly.
Unless it's late.
george
gfsomselיְמֵי־שְׁנוֹתֵינוּ בָהֶם שִׁבְעִים שָׁנָה וְאִם בִּגְבוּרֹת שְׁמוֹנִים שָׁנָה וְרָהְבָּם עָמָל וָאָוֶן
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Grabbed it in Prepub and currently reading it - very good so far [:D]
Pastor Glenn Crouch
St Paul's Lutheran Church
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One error on the product page: Evans is no longer at Acadia, but at Houston Baptist University in Texas.
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