The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation

Contributors

394 Contributors Herbert Basser was born in Toronto, attended Yeshiva University (B.A.), University of Toronto (M.A., Ph.D), and has taught at Hebrew University, University of California at Berkeley, and Touro College in New York. He has been at Queen’s University in Canada since 1980. Basser, who was once a campus rabbi, is best known for his expertise in Talmudic and midrashic studies. He has beenreferredtoas“thedeanofcontemporaryscholarsoftheconnectionsbetween the New Testament and rabbinic law.” Among his ten books are The Mind behind the Gospels: A Commentary to Mathew 1-14 (2009); Studies in Exegesis: Christian Critiques of Jewish Law and Rabbinic Responses 70-300 CE (2000); and Midrashic Interpretations of the Song of Moses (1984). Awaiting publication at present are his “ Introduction and Annotations to the Letter of James,” in Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Bretter, eds., The Jewish Annotated New Testrament (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, forthcoming) and “Confirming that ‘Tradition of the Elders’ (Paradosis) refers to an Oral body of Law (Masoret)” (Revue des Études Juives). His conference talks have encompassed Talmudic studies and also the Gospels. He resides in Toronto with his wife and children. Steven Bowman earned his Ph.D. in 1974 from The Ohio State University and is currently Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Cincinnati. Recipient of several Fulbright and NEH awards, he was recently Miles Lerman Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. His publications include The Jews of Byzantium, 1204-1453 (1985, 2000); Jewish Resistance in Wartime Greece (2006); and most recently The Agony of Greek Jewry during World War II (2009). His annotated translation of Sepher Yosippon will initiate The Hackmey Hebrew Classical Library to be published by Harvard University Press and Tel Aviv University Press, and a monograph on this seminal medieval history of the Second Temple period is in progress. He is editor-in-chief of The Sephardi contributors 395 and Greek Holocaust Library, has edited eight Holocaust memoirs, and is the author of numerous scholarly articles on Byzantine and Modern Greek Jewry. He has been a visiting professor at Queens College CUNY, New York University, University of San Diego, Haifa University, University of California at Berkeley, University of Massachusetts, and Indiana University. He has lectured extensively in Canada, Great Britain, Greece, Holland, Israel, Japan, and the United States. Bruce Chilton (Ph.D. from Cambridge, 1976) is a scholar of early Christianity and Judaism. He wrote the first critical commentary on the Aramaic version of Isaiah (The Isaiah Targum, 1987), as well as academic studies that analyze Jesus in his Judaic context (A Galilean Rabbi and His Bible, 1984; The Temple of Jesus, 1992; Pure Kingdom, 1996). He has taught in Europe at the Universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, and Münster, and in the United States at Yale University, as the first Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament, and Bard College. Currently Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard, he also directs the Institute of Advanced Theology there. Throughout his career, he has been active in the pastoral ministry of the Anglican Church, and is Rector of the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Barrytown, New York. His most recent books are Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (2000); Redeeming Time: The Wisdom of Ancient Jewish and Christian Festal Calendars (2002); Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography (2004); Mary Magdalene: A Biography (2005); The Cambridge Companion to the Bible (2007); Abraham’s Curse: Child Sacrifice in the Legacies of the West (2008); and The Way of Jesus (2010). Michael J. Cook is Professor of Intertestamental and Early Christian Literatures and holds the Sol and Arlene Bronstein Chair in Judaeo-Christian Studies at Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati Campus. His areas of interest include evolving Jewish views of Jesus and Paul, New Testament dynamics, images of Judaism in Christian Art, the history of anti-Semitism, and factors underlying Christian missionizing. His recent publications include: Modern Jews Engage the New Testament: Enhancing Jewish Well-Being in a Christian Environment (2008) and “Jews and ‘Gospel Dynamics’: Why Advice by Ancient Sages Is No Longer Sage Advice,” The Fourth R (2009). Eugene J. Fisher was Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), in charge of Catholic-Jewish relations from 1977 to 2007. He is the first layperson to have held such a USCCB post. His doctoral degree is in Hebrew Culture and Education from New York University (1976). He has served as a...