"It contains the proceedings of a Symposium held at the K.U.Leuven on January 2006. The contributors, from different European countries as well as from Israel, present in detail the history of rabbinical scholarship by Christian scholars and deal with the main issues in the study of rabbinic materials"--ECIP data view.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [471]-508) and indexes.

The New Testament and rabbinic study : an historical sketch / William Horbury -- The modern study of rabbinics and historical questions : the tale of the text / Isaiah Gafni -- From the best text to the pragmatic edition : on editing rabbinic texts / Giuseppe Veltri -- Dating rabbinic traditions / Günter Stemberger -- Form-criticism of rabbinic literature / Catherine Hezser -- The social profile of the Pharisees / Roland Deines -- Halakhah in the New Testament : a research overview / Peter J. Tomson -- Sabbath laws in the New Testament Gospels / Lutz Doering -- Jesus and purity / Friedrich Avemarie -- Jesus, Scripture and paradosis : response to Friedrich Avemarie / Thomas Kazen -- Divorce halakhah in Paul and the Jesus tradition / Peter J. Tomson -- The New Testament and rabbinic Hebrew / Jan Joosten and Menahem Kister -- "First Adam" and "Second Adam" in 1 Cor 15:45-49 in the light of midrashic exegesis and Hebrew usage / Menahem Kister -- Midrash and the New Testament : a methodology for the study of Gospel midrash / Miguel Pérez Fernández -- Targum and the New Testament : a revisit / Martin McNamara -- Jewish mysticism, the New Testament and rabbinic-period mysticism / Crispin Fletcher-Louis.

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