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The aim of The Challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam is to address the theological issues arising when different ancient religious groups inside three Abrahamic religions attempted to understand or define their opinion on the Mosaic Torah. Twelve articles explore various instances of accepting, modifying, ignoring, criticizing, and vilifying the Mosaic Torah. They demonstrate a range of perspectives of ways in which the Mosaic Torah has formed a challenge. These challenges include Persian religious policy (when the Mosaic Torah was formed), intra-Jewish discussions (e.g. Samaritans), religious practices (the New Testament debates of ritual laws) and interreligious debates on validity of the Torah stipulations (with Christians and Muslims). All the papers were discussed at the international conference, “The Challenge of the Mosaic Torah in Judaism, Christianity and Islam”, organized by Åbo Akademi University and held in Karkku, Finland, 17-18 August, 2017 .

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Author:   Antti Laato
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   7
Weight:   0.587kg
ISBN:  

9789004441897

ISBN 10:   9004441891
Pages:   262
Publication Date:   08 October 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface Notes on Contributors Part 1 Hebrew Bible 1 Deuteronomy and the Beginning of the Mosaic Torah  Kåre Berge 2 The Torah in the Book of the Twelve Prophets  Jacques van Ruiten 3 The Mosaic Torah among the Samaritans: “The Tables That Were Sundered from Divine Essence”  Magnar Kartveit Part 2 New Testament 4 What Should a Christ-Believer Eat and What Not? Food Laws in the Gospels and Paul  Lukas Bormann 5 ‘Circumcision of the Heart’ in Paul: From a Metaphor of Torah Obedience to a Metaphor of Torah Polemics?  Guido Baltes Part 3 Patristic Literature before Islam 6 Jewish Believers in Jesus and the Mosaic Law: The Opinion of Justin Martyr  Antti Laato 7 Forgetting an Epic Battle: Did the Early Church Understand the Debate between Paul and His Judaistic Opponents? Preliminary Notes on the Role of the Torah in the Early Church  Erkki Koskenniemi 8 Faustus and Augustine: A Manichaean-Catholic Debate on the Mosaic Torah  Anni Maria Laato Part 4 Jewish Writings 9 Summarizing the Jewish Law in Antiquity: Examples from Aristeas, Philo, and the New Testament  Cor de Vos 10 Rabbinic Exegetical Debates with Samaritans  Günter Stemberger Part 5 Encountering Islam 11 “Show Me in the Law”: The Use of the Argument of the Law (Torah) in the Dispute between the Muslim Emir and the Patriarch Yuhannon  Martin Tamcke 12 Torah in the Christian–Islamic Polemics of Theodore Abū Qurrah and ʿAbd al-Jabbār  Serafim Seppälä Index

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Antti Laato is Professor in Old Testament exegetics with Judaic studies at Åbo Akademi University, Turku Finland. Since 2006, he has been leader in the international network Study for the Reception History of the Bible. Recently he has edited Understanding the Spiritual Meaning of Jerusalem in Three Abrahamic Religions (STCA 6; Leiden: Brill, 2019). Contributors are Kåre Berge, Jacques van Ruiten, Magnar Kartveit, Lukas Bormann, Guido Baltes, Antti Laato, Erkki Koskenniemi, Anni Maria Laato, Cor de Vos, Günter Stemberger, Martin Tamcke, Serafim Seppälä.

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