The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah

By Edersheim, Alfred

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Title:	The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah
Author:	Edersheim, Alfred
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Language:	English
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Religion and Christian Theology Collection

Excerpt
Excerpt: But their further object, besides this vindication, has been the illustration of the Gospel-narratives. Even the general reader must be aware that some knowledge of Jewish life and society at the time is requisite for the understanding of the Gospel-history. Those who have consulted the works of Lightfoot, Sch”ttgen, Meuschen, Wetstein and Wunsche, or even the extracts from them presented in Commentaries, know that the help derived from their Jewish references is very great. And yet, despite the immense learning and industry of these writers, there are serious drawbacks to their use. Sometimes the references are critically not quite accurate; sometimes they are derived from works that should not have been adduced in evidence; occasionally, either the rendering, or the application of what is separated from its context, is not reliable. A still more serious objection is, that these quotations are not unfrequently one sided; but chiefly this - perhaps, as the necessary consequence of being merely illustrative notes to certain verses in the Gospels - that they do not present a full and connected picture. And yet it is this which so often gives the most varied and welcome illustration of the Gospel-narratives. In truth, we know not only the leading personages in Church and State in Palestine at that time, their views, teaching, pursuits, and aims; the state of parties; the character of popular opinion; the proverbs, the customs, the daily life of the country - but we can, in imagination, enter their dwellings, associate with them in familiar intercourse, or follow them to the Temple, the Synagogue, the Academy, or to the market-place and the workshop. We know what clothes they wore, what dishes they ate, what wines they drank, what they produced and what they imported: nay, the cost of every article of their dress or food, the price of houses and of living; in short, every detail that can give vividness to a picture of life.

Table of Contents
Table of Contents About This Book. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. ii Title Page. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 1 Preface to the First Edition. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 2 Preface to the Second and Third Editions. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 8 List of Authorities. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 12 List of Abbreviations and References to Rabbinic Writings.. . . . . . . . . . p. 473 p. 478 Introductory. The Preparation for the Gospel; the Jewish world in the days of Christ. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 478 CHAPTER I. THE JEWISH WORLD IN THE DAYS OF CHRIST - THE JEWISH DISPERSION IN THE EAST.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 488 CHAPTER II. THE JEWISH DISPERSION IN THE WEST - THE HELLENISTS - ORIGIN OF HELLENIST LITERATURE IN THE GREEK TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE - CHARACTER OF THE SEPTUAGINT.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 499 CHAPTER III. THE OLD FAITH PREPARING FOR THE NEW - DEVELOPMENT OF HELLENIST THEOLOGY: THE APOCRYPHA, ARISTEAS, ARISTOBULUS, AND THE PSEUDEPIGRAPHIC WRITINGS.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 505 CHAPTER IV. PHILO OF ALEXANDRIA, THE RABBIS, AND THE GOSPELS - THE FINAL DEVELOPMENT OF HELLENISM IN ITS RELATION TO RABBINISM AND THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO ST. JOHN.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 518 CHAPTER V. ALEXANDRIA AND ROME - THE JEWISH COMMUNITIES IN THE CAPITALS OF WESTERN CIVILISATION.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 529 CHAPTER VI. POLITICAL AND RELIGIOUS LIFE OF THE JEWISH DISPERSION IN THE WEST - THEIR UNION IN THE GREAT HOPE OF THE COMING DELIVERER.. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 536 CHAPTER VII. IN PALESTINE - JEWS AND GENTILES IN 'THE LAND' - THEIR MUTUAL RELATIONS AND FEELINGS - 'THE WALL OF SEPARATION.'. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . p. 543 CHAPTER VIII. TRADITIONALISM, ITS ORIGIN, CHARACTER, AND LITERATURE - THE MISHNAH AND TALMUD - THE GOSPEL OF CHRIST - THE DAWN OF A NEW DAY. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . From the Manger in Bethlehem to the Baptism in Jordan.. . . . . . . . . . . p. 556 CHAPTER I. IN JERUSALEM WHEN HEROD REIGNED. . . . . . . . . . p. 556