Jesus and the Law - Softcover

Watson, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0820341533 ISBN 13: 9780820341538

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2012

Synopsis

In Jesus and the Law, Alan Watson measures the success of Jesus’s ministry by explaining his attitude toward, and knowledge of, certain laws and legal customs. Watson argues that Jesus engendered harsh responses from his fellow Jews by his apparently contemptuous or insensitive behavior that stemmed from a lack of knowledge or concern about legal and rabbinic strictures. Informed by Watson’s knowledge of Jewish and Roman law and ancient history, and his skillful relation of Mishnaic and Talmudic materials to the time of Jesus, this book is more than a vivid retelling of the events of the Gospels. Jesus and the Law joins three other works by Watson―The Trial of Jesus, Jesus and the Jews, and Jesus: A Profile―to examine the early dynamism of western religion through refocused attention on biblical texts and other historical sources.

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About the Author:

ALAN WATSON, Distinguished Research Professor and Ernest P. Rogers Chair at the University of Georgia School of Law, is regarded as one of the world's foremost authorities on Roman law, comparative law, legal history, and law and religion. He is the author of numerous books, including The State, Law, and Religion: Pagan Rome (Georgia) and Roman Law and Comparative Law (Georgia). He is also the editor of the four-volume translation of the Digest of Justinian.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0820341533
• ISBN 13: 9780820341538
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 182