A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament
An in-depth look at the Christian scriptures—from a Jewish perspective.
On Christmas day 1925, Rabbi Stephen S.Wise, one of the twentieth century’s most influential Jewish leaders, gave a lecture at Carnegie Hall in New York City titled “A Jew’s View of Jesus.” He argued that Jesus, in fact, existed, contrary to popular Jewish opinion at that time. He said, “Neither Christian protest nor Jewish lamentation can annul the fact that Jesus was a Jew, an Hebrew of Hebrews.”
Thirty years later, Rabbi Samuel Sandmel set out to explain and introduce—for the first time in scholarly detail from a Jewish perspective—the enigmatic character of the texts held sacred by Christians, the so-called New Testament that surrounds and presents the figure of Jesus.
In this new edition of Sandmel’s classic work, you will encounter his lucid and brilliant introduction to the New Testament from a Jewish point of view, transcending the boundaries of religion in order to share in the profound perplexities and deep aspirations that we as human beings have been inspired to express.
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Book details
- Author
- David Fox Sandmel, Benjamin Fox Sandmel, Charles Fox Sandmel
- Imprint
- SkyLight Paths, an imprint of Turner Publishing Company
- Published
- Formats
- Paperback, Hardcover
- Subjects
- Religion › Judaism
- Topics
- Jewish perspective · biblical scholarship · Judaism and Christianity · religious studies · theology · gospels
- ISBN-13
- 9781594730481 (Paperback)9781681629599 (Hardcover)
About the author
RABBI SAMUEL SANDMEL was a biblical scholar and the author of more than twenty books, including Philo of Alexandria, We Jews and Jesus, and A Jewish Understanding of the New Testament.
Sandmel served as Distinguished Service Professor of Bible and Hellenistic literature at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, where he was also Provost from 1956 to 1965, and later held the Helen A. Regenstein Professor of Religion chair at the University of Chicago Divinity School. He received his doctorate from Yale University in 1949 and served as president of the Society of Biblical Literature in 1961. He was general editor of the Oxford University Press Study Edition of the New English Bible.
Sandmel was born in Dayton, Ohio, and died on November 4, 1979, in Cincinnati, Ohio.