Perspectives on Our Father Abraham: Essays in Honor of Marvin R. Wilson
Pages
397
Publisher
Eerdmans
Published
9/18/2012
ISBN-13
9780802869531
Marvin R. Wilson has devoted much of his life to bringing Jews and Christians into dialogue with one another. His seminal text, Our Father Abraham — perhaps more than any other book — has clearly shown a generation of Christians the Jewish roots of their faith.
Perspectives on Our Father Abraham is a collection of thoughtful articles honouring Marvin Wilson on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. Nineteen Jewish and Christian scholars — friends of his and experts in their own fields — here offer various studies related to the patriarch Abraham. Readers will profit from these engaging, even ground-breaking, studies of Abraham both in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures and in other ancient and contemporary traditions.
More than simply a Festschrift, this book encompasses a uniquely broad range of traditions having to do with Abraham. It also succeeds in the task that Wilson has always encouraged — bringing Jews and Christians together in fruitful dialogue.
Perspectives on Our Father Abraham is a collection of thoughtful articles honouring Marvin Wilson on the occasion of his seventy-fifth birthday. Nineteen Jewish and Christian scholars — friends of his and experts in their own fields — here offer various studies related to the patriarch Abraham. Readers will profit from these engaging, even ground-breaking, studies of Abraham both in the Hebrew and Christian Scriptures and in other ancient and contemporary traditions.
More than simply a Festschrift, this book encompasses a uniquely broad range of traditions having to do with Abraham. It also succeeds in the task that Wilson has always encouraged — bringing Jews and Christians together in fruitful dialogue.
- Table of Contents
- Foreword - R. Judson Carlberg
- Acknowledgments
- Contributors
- The Life and Legacy of Marvin R. Wilson - Roger J. Green
- ABRAHAM IN THE HEBREW SCRIPTURES
- Abraham and Archaeology: Anachronisms or Adaptations? - Edwin M. Yamauchi
- Abraham's Experience of Yahweh: An Argument for the Historicity of the Patriarchal Narrative - John N. Oswalt
- A Song of Our Father Abraham: Psalm 105 - Ted Hildebrandt
- Abraham in Exile - H. G. M. Williamson
- ABRAHAM IN THE CHRISTIAN SCRIPTURES
- And the Word Became Flesh---Again? Jesus and Abraham in John 8:31-59 - Steven A. Hunt
- "The Tomb That Abraham Had Purchased" (Acts 7:16) - Elaine Phillips
- Who Are Abraham's True Children? The Role of Abraham in Pauline Argumentation - Gordon D. Fee
- The Law and the Promise: God's Covenant with Abraham in Pauline Perspective - William B. Barcley
- Abraham and Empire in Galatians - Roy E. Ciampa
- Abraham, the Father of Many Nations in the Book of Revelation - David Mathewson
- ABRAHAM AND INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES: THE DIALOGUE CONTINUES
- "They Are Loved on Account of the Patriarchs": Zekhut Avot and the Covenant with Abraham - Elaine Phillips
- Sarah: The View of the Classical Rabbis - David J. Zucker
- "Go to the Root of Your Own Life": Some Contemporary Jewish Readings of the Abraham Saga - David Klatzker
- Elizabeth Boush's "Sacrifice of Isaac": An Eighteenth-Century Object Lesson for Today's Church - Lauren F. Winner
- Our Brother Abraham: The "Sacrifice" in Films by Tarkovsky and Majidi - Mark L. Sargent
- Evangelicals and Jews: The Unfinished Agenda - A. James Rudin
- Following Abraham into the Twenty-first Century: Building Christian-Jewish Relations Today - JoAnn G. Magnuson
- "The Other Woman": A Collaborative Jewish-Christian Study of Hagar - Rebecca Gates Brinton
Inner Books
This physical volume has several internal sections, each of which has been reviewed independently
- The Life and Legacy of Marvin R. Wilson by Roger J. Green
- Abraham and Archaeology: Anachronisms or Adaptations? by Edwin M. Yamauchi
- Abraham's Experience of Yahweh: An Argument for the Historicity of the Patriarchal Narrative by John N. Oswalt
- A Song of Our Father Abraham: Psalm 105 by Ted Hildebrandt
- Abraham in Exile by
- And the Word Became Flesh---Again? Jesus and Abraham in John 8:31-59 by Steven A. Hunt
- "The Tomb That Abraham Had Purchased" (Acts 7:16) by Elaine A. Phillips
- Who Are Abraham's True Children? The Role of Abraham in Pauline Argumentation by Gordon D. Fee
- The Law and the Promise: God's Covenant with Abraham in Pauline Perspective by William B. Barcley
- Abraham and Empire in Galatians by Roy E. Ciampa
- Abraham, the Father of Many Nations in the Book of Revelation by David L. Mathewson
- "They Are Loved on Account of the Patriarchs": Zekhut Avot and the Covenant with Abraham by Elaine A. Phillips
- Sarah: The View of the Classical Rabbis by David J. Zucker
- "Go to the Root of Your Own Life": Some Contemporary Jewish Readings of the Abraham Saga by David Klatzker
- Elizabeth Boush's "Sacrifice of Isaac": An Eighteenth-Century Object Lesson for Today's Church by Lauren F. Winner
- Our Brother Abraham: The "Sacrifice" in Films by Tarkovsky and Majidi by Mark L. Sargent
- Evangelicals and Jews: The Unfinished Agenda by A. James Rudin
- Following Abraham into the Twenty-first Century: Building Christian-Jewish Relations Today by JoAnn G. Magnuson
- "The Other Woman": A Collaborative Jewish-Christian Study of Hagar by Rebecca Gates Brinton