Books written by Alan F. Segal
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Life After Death: A History of the Afterlife in the Religions of the West
Explores concepts of the afterlife as understood in the three main Western religions, examining the views found in sacred and historical writings from Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.
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The Oxford Handbook of Religious Conversion
rodney Stark and William Sims bainbridge argue that “the vision of a religionless future is but illusion.”5 They recognize that secularization, a powerful trend in the present, is not a new phenomenon. religious economies have always ...
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Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports About Christianity and Gnosticism
The groundwork for impartial study of “ two powers ” tradition was begun by G. F. Moore . 23 Moore dealt with the problem of " two powers in heaven ” briefly and in philosophical rather than. 20 His argument for the association is made ...
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Israel's God and Rebecca's Children: Christology and Community in Early Judaism and Christianity : Essays in Honor of Larry W....
Here three ideas from Peter Brooks's highly suggestive book Reading for the Plot prove instructive. Brooks moves beyond the structuralist's synchronic definition of plot as simply metaphor to speak about temporal sequence, or metonymy.
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Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports About Christianity and Gnosticism
Leviticus Lieberman , Greek S. Lieberman , Greek in Jewish Palestine : Studies in the Life and Manners of Jewish Palestine in the II - IV Centuries C.E. ( New York : 1965 ) Lieberman , How Much S. Lieberman , “ How Much Greek in Jewish ...
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Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee
198f , and L. Schiffman , “ The Recall of Neḥuniah ben Hakkanah from Ecstasy , ” AJS Review 1 ( 1976 ) : 269–81 ; see also Lieberman's corrections to Schiffman in Gruenwald , Apocalyptic and Merkabah Mysticism , p . 241 . 13.
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Rebecca’s Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World
... 174 Davidic kings , 17-18 , 20–21 , 47 , 65 , 84-85 , 88 Davies , Alan T. , 192 Davies , W. D. , 195 Dead Sea Scrolls , 48–51 , 69 , 75–77 , 80 ; Hymns 2:10 , 3:20 , 6:13 , and 11:10 , 189 ; Manual of Discipline 1QS 9 : 10-11 ...
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Rebecca’s Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World
Alan T. Davies (New York: Paulist Press, 1979), pp. 48–71; Krister Stendahl, “Judaism and Christianity: A Plea for a New Relationship,” Cross Currents 17 (1967): 445–458. 21. The scholarly position that Paul is talking about only ...
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Sinning in the Hebrew Bible: How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth
Rereading these stories in their different forms and varying contexts, Alan F. Segal demonstrates the significance of sinning throughout history and today.
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Sinning in the Hebrew Bible: How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth
“ALAN F. SEGAL'S approach to myth is very illuminating for 'the Worst Stories' of the Bible. To see how these stories reflect (and attempt to resolve) contradictions— moral, social, and gender—is salutary and fresh. Segal was one of our ...
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The Croesus Affair
The Croesus Affair
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Paul le converti: apôtre ou apostat
Paul est souvent délaissé par les exégètes juifs, qui le considèrent comme un simple apostat.
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Rebecca’s Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World
Renowned scholar Alan F. Segal offers startlingly new insights into the origins of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. These twin descendants of Hebrew heritage shared the same social, cultural, and ideological...
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Paul the Convert: The Apostolate and Apostasy of Saul the Pharisee
For a different but related interpretation of this passage, see Lloyd Gaston, "Paul and the Law in Galatians Two and ... he sometimes affirms its value as a standard of righteousness even for Christians (see the puzzling passages 1 Cor.
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Two Powers in Heaven: Early Rabbinic Reports about Christianity and Gnosticism
Rabbinic evidence for Jewish herey and the beginning of Christianity
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Sinning in the Hebrew Bible: How the Worst Stories Speak for Its Truth
Rereading these stories in their different forms and varying contexts, Alan F. Segal demonstrates the significance of sinning throughout history and today.
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The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity
The Other Judaisms of Late Antiquity