Tag: Michael Bird
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“Gentiles for Moses”: The Debate about the Nature and Intensity of Jewish Proselytizing Efforts in Ancient Judaism
The Bible and Interpretation: “Gentiles for Moses”: The Debate about the Nature and Intensity of Jewish Proselytizing Efforts in Ancient Judaism by Michael Bird … I wouldn’t bother Googling “Gentiles for Moses” or “Gentiles for YHWH” (actually I tried it and found nothing) because modern Judaism is for the most part not as missionary oriented…
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James Dunn on the New Perspective
Michael Bird notes that, "James Dunn's 1983 essay "The New Perspective on Paul" originally published in BJRL, is now available on-line thanks to Mark Mattison of the Paul Page." Dunn also has a new book to be released any day, called The New Perspective on Paul. E. P. Sanders, James Dunn, and N. T. Wright…
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Rodney Stark: Cities of God
Euangelion (Michael Bird): Rodney Stark: Cities of God During my doctoral studies I came across Rodney Stark's book The Rise of Christianity which had some interesting comments on the emergence of Christianity. There was some good stuff on conversion theory as well as Stark's interesting proposal that the Christian mission to Jews was actually a…