Week 3: Christian attitudes to Jewish Law; The Trial of Jesus
Required Reading (BA and MA)
An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law, pp.36-38
Cohn, H.H. "Reflections on the Trial and Death of Jesus", Israel Law Review 2 (1967), 332-379 (Per.Law: Red 3 ISRAEL), reprinted in H.H. Cohn, Jewish Law in Ancient and Modern Israel, 1970, 83-130 (Green 3, 349.33/C1)
Required Reading (MA)
B.S. Jackson, "The Prophet and the Law in Early Judaism and the New Testament", in The Paris Conference Volume, ed. S.M. Passamaneck and M. Finley (Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1994), 85-112 (Jewish Law Association Studies, VII). (Blue 4, 349.33/J1) (if in difficulty, ask BSJ)
Further Reading:
Alexander, P.S., "Jewish Law in the time of Jesus; towards a clarification of the problem", in B. Lindars, ed., Law and Religion: Essays on the Place of the Law in Israel and Early Christianity, ch.5 (Cambridge: James Clarke, 1988), Blue 4 220.834/L1
Bammel, E., ed., The Trial of Jesus, SCM Press, 1970 (Blue Flr 4, 232.962/M1 & M2)
Brandon, S G F., The Trial of Jesus of Nazareth, Paladin, 1968 (Blue 4, 232.962/B28)
Carson, D.A., "The Trial and Passion of Jesus", in The Gospel According to John (Leicester: Inter-Varsity Press, 1991), 571-606 (Blue 4, 226.5/C28)
Cohn, H.H., The Trial and Death of Jesus. NY: Harper & Row, 1971 (Blue Flr 4 232.962/C4)
Jofen, J., "The Jewish Law of Usury as Seen in Elizabethan Literature", The Jewish Law Annual 8 (1989), 147-158 (Per.Religion: Blue 4, JEWISH)
Winter, Paul, On the Trial of Jesus, Berlin:
Walter de Gruyter, 1974, 2nd ed, (Blue Flr 4, 232.962/W62)
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