Jesus, the Sabbath and the Jewish debate
Subtitle: healing on the Sabbath in the 1st and 2nd century CE
By: Nina L. Collins
Edition: First edition.
Series: Library of New Testament studies -- 474
Publisher: T&T Clark
Published: 2014
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780567385871; 9780567270344
Subjects: Sabbath (Jewish law); Healing; Criticism, interpretation; Rabbinical literature; History and criticism; Christianity and other religions; Judaism; Relations; Christianity; Bible
Description: "The claim that Jesus was criticised by the Pharisees for performing Sabbath cures has been emphatically repeated for over 2,000 years.  But a careful, unprejudiced evaluation of the Gospels - the only source for this accusation - shows that the historical Jesus was never criticised by historical Pharisees for performing Sabbath cures and that both the Pharisees and Jesus agreed that Sabbath cures must be performed.  The Sabbath healing events in the Gospels have in fact preserved a significant part of the history of the post-biblical Jewish debate which sought to reconcile the apparently mutually irreconcilable demands of Jewish law and the need to perform deeds of healing and/or saving life, which is the subject of this book"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Chapter 1. The Problem; title: Chapter 2. An overview of the Sabbath events in the Gospels; title: Chapter 3. The Sabbath and post-Sabbath healing events in the Gospels: 1. Saving life from starvation ; 2. The cure of a man with dropsy ; 3. The cure of a woman with a bent back ; 4. The cure of a withered hand ; 5. An unidentified Sabbath cure, (John 7:14) ; 6. Galilean Sabbath cures ; 7. The cure of the mother-in-law of a disciple of Jesus ; 8. The removal of an evil spirit ; 9. The cure of a crippled man ; 10. The cure of a man blind from birth ; 11. Post-Sabbath cures; title: Chapter 4. Sabbath healing in the Gospels; title: Chapter 5. Terms and arguments of R. Eleazar b. Azariah, R. Akiva and R. Ishmael and their schools; title: Chapter 6. Direct interaction between R. Akiva and Matthew?; title: Chapter 7. 2nd century interpretations of biblical verses based on Pentateuchal Jewish law; title: Chapter 8. Two symbolic seals of approval from the Amoraim; title: Chapter 9. Specificity versus generality; title: Chapter 10. Other indications for dating; title: Chapter 11. The earliest dates of composition of Tannaitic directives on healing and/or saving life; title: Chapter 12. A summary of the history of the early Jewish debate on acts of healing and/or saving life, and the contribution of the Gospels and the historical Jesus to this Jewish debate.