1 Enoch: A New Translation: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments: Created in conjunction with an exhaustive critical commentary, this is the only English translation of 1 Enoch that takes into consideration all of the textual data now available in the Ethiopic version, the Greek texts, and the Dead Sea Aramaic fragments. ... Details...

Introduction to the Talmud and Midrash: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments: Gunter Stemberger’s revision of H. L. Strack’s classic introduction to rabbinic literature, which appeared in its first English edition in 1991, was widely acclaimed.Gunter Stemberger and Markus Bockmuehl have now produced this updated edition, which is... Details...

Jewish Contemporaries of Jesus: Pharisees, Sadducees, Essenes: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments: In this careful study, Gunter Stemberger reexamines the sources, history, and teaching of the Pharisees, Sadducees, and Essenes—the three most prominent religious groups of first-century Judaism. Stemberger challenges old assumptions by asking the quest... Details...

Jewish-Christian Debates: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments:Two eminent scholars, each expert in his own tradition, take Jewish-Christian dialogue to a new level. Aiming at neither mere description nor conversion, each presents the classical elements of his tradition's understanding of three fundamental, common religi... Details...

Judaism Beginning Christianity: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments:In this clearly written book, Jacob Neusner answers the central questions about the world of Judaism in which Christianity was born. He gives an overview of the history and religion of Israel and an analysis of the Judaic legacy as it endured among those who ... Details...

Recovering Judaism: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments: Judaism today is too often thought to represent a religious backwater, a highly particularistic, religion with its own esoteric tales and traditions, practices and norms. First Christians, then Jews themselves, have succumbed to this characterization, resul... Details...

The God of Israel and Christian Theology: (Augsburg Fortress Publishers) Publisher's Comments: With acknowledgment that Christian theology contributed to the persecution and genocide of Jews comes a dilemma: how to excise the cancer without killing the patient? Kendall Soulen shows how important Christian assertions—the uniqueness of Jesus, the Chr... Details...