Cover
Contents
Abbreviations
Preface
Part 1: Introduction
John and the Jews
“Is Jesus the King of Israel?”
Part 2: John as a Source for Understanding Judaism
The Gospel of John as a Source for First-Century Judaism
John, Judaism, and “Searching the Scriptures”
John, the Jews, and Philosophy
Part 3: Reappraising John’s Relationship to Judaism and Jewish Christianity
Story and History
Jesus, Ἀποσυνάγωγος, and Modes of Religiosity
Evidence of Conflict with the Synagogue in the Johannine Writings
Johannine Christian and Baptist Sectarians within Late First-Century Judaism
The Shema in John’s Gospel and Jewish Restoration Eschatology
Tensions in Matthean and Johannine Soteriology Viewed in Their Jewish Context
Matthew and John
Toward Reconfiguring Our Views on the “Parting of the Ways”
Part 4: Reading John as Jews and Christians
Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel Fifteen Years after the Leuven Colloquium
Anti-Semitism and Religious Violence as Flawed Interpretations of the Gospel of John
Seed of Abraham, Slavery, and Sin
The Place of John in Christian-Jewish Relations Fifty Years after Nostra Aetate
Afterword
Works Cited
Contributors
Ancient Sources Index
Modern Authors Index