Preface to the Third Edition To The Reader Alphabetical Listing of the Books of the New Testament List of Abbreviations The New Testament Gospels and Acts - Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler The Gospel According to Matthew - Introduction and Annotations by Aaron M. Gale The Gospel According to Mark - Introduction and Annotations by Lawrence M. Wills The Gospel According to Luke - Introduction and Annotations by Amy-Jill Levine The Gospel According to John - Introduction and Annotations by Adele Reinhartz The Acts of the Apostles - Introduction and Annotations by Gary Gilbert Epistles and Revelation - Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler The Letter of Paul to the Romans - Introduction and Annotations by Mark D. Nanos The First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians - Introduction and Annotations by Shira L. Lander The Second Letter of Paul to the Corinthians - Introduction and Annotations by Alan J. Avery-Peck The Letter of Paul to the Galatians - Introduction and Annotations by Paula Fredriksen The Letter of Paul to the Ephesians - Introduction and Annotations by David Kraemer The Letter of Paul to the Philippians - Introduction and Annotations by Serge Ruzer The Letter of Paul to the Colossians - Introduction and Annotations by Peter Zaas The First Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians - Introduction and Annotations by David Fox Sandmel The Second Letter of Paul to the Thessalonians - Introduction and Annotations by Adam Gregerman The First Letter of Paul to Timothy - Introduction and Annotations by Annette M. Boeckler The Second Letter of Paul to Timothy - Introduction and Annotations by Suzanne Pleitzsch The Letter of Paul to Titus - Introduction and Annotations by Jennifer L. Koosed The Letter of Paul to Philemon - Introduction and Annotations by Sarah Emanuel and Shayne Sheinfeld The Letter to the Hebrews - Introduction and Annotations by Pamela Eisenbaum The Letter of James - Introduction and Annotations by Herbert Basser The First Letter of Peter - Introduction and Annotations by Marcie Lenk The Second Letter of Peter - Introduction and Annotations by Meira Kensky The First Letter of John - Introduction and Annotations by Matthew Kraus The Second Letter of John - Introduction and Annotations by Krista Dalton The Third Letter of John - Introduction and Annotations by Jonathan Brumberg-Kraus The Letter of Jude - Introduction and Annotations by Andrew S.

Jacobs The Revelation to John - Introduction and Annotations by David Frankfurter The Essays Introduction to the Essays - Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler History Bearing False Witness: Common Errors Made about Early Judaism - Amy-Jill Levine The Greco-Roman Background of the New Testament - Erich S. Gruen Jewish History, 331 BCE-135 CE - Martin Goodman Revolts against Rome -- Eric M. Orlin Society Judaism and Jewishness - Shaye J. D. Cohen The Sanhedrin - David Goodblatt Judean Family Life in the First Century CE - Ross S. Kraemer Marriage and Divorce - Michael L. Satlow Gender - Tal Ilan Archaeology of the Land of Israel at the Time of Jesus - Jodi Magness The Burial of Jesus: Between Texts and Archaeology - Steven Fine Movements Ioudaios - Joshua D. Garroway Jewish Movements of the New Testament Period - Daniel R.

Schwartz Pharisees - Yair Furstenberg Messianic Movements - David B. Levenson The Historical Jesus - Sarah J. Tanzer Paul and Judaism - Paula Fredriksen Judaizers, Jewish Christians, and Others - Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert Jews and Gentiles The Concept of Neighbor in Jewish and Christian Ethics - Michael Fagenblat Jewish Views of Gentiles - Meir Ben Shahar Food and Table Fellowship - David M. Freidenreich Birkat ha-Minim: A Jewish Curse of Christians? - Ruth Langer Jewish Practice The Law - Jonathan Klawans Purity and Impurity in the New Testament - Yitzhak Feder Circumcision - Lawrence Hoffman Disability and Healing - Julia Watts Belser Sacrifice and the Temple - Naphtali Meshel The Synagogue - Lee I. Levine Prayer - Avigdor Shinan Time, Calendars, and Festivals - Sacha Stern Jewish Belief Covenants and Land - Eyal Ben-Eliyahu Sin and Repentance - Alan J. Avery-Peck Supernatural Beings - Rebecca Lesses Logos, A Jewish Word: John''s Prologue as Midrash - Daniel Boyarin Jewish Miracle Workers and Magic in the Late Second Temple Period - Geza Vermes z''''l and Gideon Bohak Baptism and Eucharist - Isaac W. Oliver Afterlife and Resurrection - Martha Himmelfarb Literature The Septuagint - Leonard Greenspoon The Dead Sea Scrolls - Menahem Kister Philo of Alexandria - David Satran Josephus - Jack Pastor Targum - Moshe J Bernstein The New Testament between the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and Rabbinic Literature - Marc Zvi Brettler The Canon of the New Testament - Michael R. Greenwald The Language of the New Testament and the Translation of the Bible - Naomi Seidman Scripture Fulfillment - Amy-Jill Levine and Marc Zvi Brettler Midrash and Parables - David Stern Jewish Responses to the New Testament The New Testament and Jewish-Christian Relations - Ed Kessler Stereotypes about God in the Old and New Testaments - Eva Mroczek Supersessionism - Karma ben-Jochanan Jewish Responses to Christ Followers - Claudia Setzer Jesus in Rabbinic Tradition - Burton L.

Visotzky Jesus in Medieval Jewish Tradition - Martin Lockshin Jesus in Modern Jewish Thought - Susannah Heschel Jesus and the New Testament in Modern Yiddish and Hebrew Culture - Matthew Hoffman z''''l Abraham in Jewish and Christian Thought - Aaron Koller Moses in the New Testament - Serge Ruzer Paul in Jewish Thought - Daniel R. Langton Mary in Jewish Tradition - Daniel J. Lasker Judas Iscariot in Jewish Thought - Maeera Yaffa Shreiber The New Testament in the Jewish Arts - Marc Michael Epstein Christology - Jehoshua Ahrens Modern Jewish Believers in Jesus - Yaakov Ariel A Jewish Reflection on Christian Claims - Jacob Neusner z''''l Tables, Glossary, Index Timeline Chronological Table of Rulers Some Tannaitic Rabbis Some Amoraic Rabbis Calendar Weights and Measures Parallel Texts Chapter/Verse Differences Canons of the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament with Additions Translations of Ancient Texts Divisions and Tractates of the Mishnah, Talmud, and Tosefta Glossary Index.