The so-called New Testament, which became the fundamental text for Christian groups during the first centuries of the common era, is in many ways framed by Jewish tradition in its discussion of the one God of Israel, the expectation of the messiah, and the Jew Jesus as engaged in rabbinic debates. It is shaped by the sacred scriptures of Israel, by Jewish-Hellenistic traditions and norms, and the Jewish concepts of eschatology and apocalypticism. This course will explore selected passages from the New Testament in their Judaic contexts. What in their Jewish contexts were the authors of the New Testament responding to, changing, or developing further? What biblical texts, ritual practices, or socio-political realities? In exploring key sections of the New Testament and the surrounding thought-milieux we will look for concepts that explore the interrelationship between Judaisms and Christianities, to better understand the development of what became Christianity, and the “parting of the ways” of Judaisms and Christianities.
Einführende Literatur / Introductory Literature Levine, A.-J. – Brettler, M. Z., The Jewish Annotated New Testament: New Revised Standard Version Bible Translation, Oxford OUP 2017; German translation: Kraus, W. – Töllner, A. – Tilly, M., Das Neue Testament - jüdisch erklärt. Lutherübersetzung, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft 2021;Kraus, W. u.a. (Ed..), Das Neue Testament - jüdisch erklärt: In der Diskussion, Stuttgart: Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft 2023.Boyarin, D., The Jewish Gospels: the story of the Jewish Christ, New York : The New Press 2013; German translation: Die jüdischen Evangelien. Die Geschichte des jüdischen Christus (Judentum – Christentum – Islam, 12), Würzburg: Ergon-Verl. 2015;M. Tiwald – M. Öhler (Ed.). Parting of the Ways. The Variegated Ways of Separations between Jews and Christians, Paderborn: Schöningh, 2022 (also open access).
The course will be held in English, but questions and comments may be made in both languages.Studienleistung: short presentations with handout during the course. Studierende 1. Examen: Im Rahmen des Seminars kann eine Seminararbeit im Fach Neues Testament geschrieben werden.Anmeldung über AGNESPasswort Moodle Kurs: context
Modulabschlussprüfung: oral examen (German or English), Seminararbeit
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