Bruce Chilton, Author . Hendrickson $19.95 (122p) ISBN 978-1-56563-380-3
New Testament scholar Chilton, author of Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography, here expounds upon ideas of sacred time in the Jewish and Christian festal calendars. The general reader may feel a bit lost by terms such as "heilgeschichte" and &#
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Bruce Chilton, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-50862-9
In this follow-up to Rabbi Jesus
, Chilton turns his attention to the life and work of Christianity's most enigmatic figure, Paul of Tarsus. Raised as an observant Jew in the commercial center of Tarsus, Paul not only absorbed the traditions of...
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Bruce Chilton, Author . Doubleday $23.95 (220p) ISBN 978-0-385-51317-3
With the popularity of The Da Vinci Code
, Mary Magdalene has become the "it girl" of biblical studies. Bard professor of religion Chilton (Rabbi Jesus
; Rabbi Paul
) adds another volume to the already groaning shelves of books on the...
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Bruce Chilton, Author . Doubleday $24.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-385-52027-0
In this thought-provoking study, Bard College professor Chilton (Rabbi Jesus
) asks how the Abrahamic faiths have understood Genesis 22, the story of the binding of Isaac. All three religions include a strand of interpretation that reads the binding
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Bruce Chilton, Author Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing Company $20 (192p) ISBN 978-0-8028-4187-2
At the end of the 20th century, the number of books published exploring the life and work of Jesus has grown dramatically as scholars have embarked on a quest to discover the history of the shadowy figure lying behind the Gospels. Out of this search,
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Bruce Chilton, Author Doubleday Books $25 (352p) ISBN 978-0-385-49792-3
Chilton claims to have produced ""the first comprehensive, critical biography of Jesus"" in an effort to ""find the core"" from which Christian faith arose. Unfortunately, he falls short of these noble goals. According to Chilton (Anglican priest...
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Bruce Chilton, Author, Jacob Neusner, Editor, William Scott Green, With Pilgrim Press $14.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-8298-1170-4
Edited volumes are, at their worst, disparate and eclectic collections through which readers rummage in search of pearls of great wisdom. Not so for this slim and readable trio of essays by Jewish rabbi and theologian Neusner, Catholic sociologist...
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Bruce Chilton. Fortress, $27 (364p) ISBN 978-1-5064-7428-1
Chilton (Resurrection Logic), a professor of religion at Bard College, fails to make the most of rich subject matter in this disappointing history of the Herodian dynasty, which reigned in ancient Israel in the first centuries BCE and CE. Chilton...
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