From Judaism to Christianity: A Festschrift for Thomas H. Tobin SJ, on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday. Edited by Patricia Walters
Thomas Tobin is, in the old cliché, a ‘scholar and a gentleman’, and the eminent contributors to this richly merited Festschrift pay appropriate homage to his work on the Jewish and Christian communities who were seeking to find a voice in an age different from one that they had previously known (an...
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| Format: | Electronic Review |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford University Press
2011
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The journal of theological studies
Year: 2011, Volume: 62, Issue: 2, Pages: 695-698 |
| Review of: | From Judaism to Christianity (Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2010) (King, Nicholas)
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| Summary: | Thomas Tobin is, in the old cliché, a ‘scholar and a gentleman’, and the eminent contributors to this richly merited Festschrift pay appropriate homage to his work on the Jewish and Christian communities who were seeking to find a voice in an age different from one that they had previously known (and will therefore repay reading in our own ‘age of transition’). Reviewing such a collection is almost impossible, since it is in the nature of the genre that there is no sustained argument; let me point, however, to some of the themes that emerge. It starts with Robert Di Vito on biblical interpretation and speech-act theory (many readers will rejoice at this evidence that J. L. |
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| ISSN: | 1477-4607 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: The journal of theological studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1093/jts/flr118 |