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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bruce D. Chilton is an American scholar of early Christianity and Judaism, and an Episcopalian priest. He is Bernard Iddings Bell Professor of Religion at Bard College, formerly Lillian Claus Professor of New Testament at Yale University, and Rector of the Church of St John the Evangelist He holds a PhD in New Testament from Cambridge University . He has previously held academic positions at the Universities of Cambridge, Sheffield, and Münster.
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Published Works
- Jesus and Judaism (1982) (190)
- Altruism in world religions (2005) (50)
- The Targums: A Critical Introduction (2011) (48)
- Exile: Old Testament, Jewish, and Christian Conceptions (1997) (45)
- The Temple of Jesus: His Sacrificial Program Within a Cultural History of Sacrifice (1992) (40)
- The Isaiah Targum: Introduction, Translation, Apparatus and Notes (1987) (33)
- Studying the Historical Jesus: Evaluations of the State of Current Research (1994) (29)
- The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul (2004) (29)
- Judaism in the New Testament: Practices and Beliefs (1995) (28)
- Jesus ben David: reflections on the Davidssohnfrage (1982) (25)
- Jesus and the ethics of the kingdom (1987) (19)
- James the Just and Christian Origins (1999) (17)
- Pure Kingdom: Jesus' Vision of God (1996) (16)
- The golden rule: the ethics of reciprocity in world religions (2008) (15)
- The Isaiah Targum (1987) (15)
- Rabbi Jesus: An Intimate Biography (2000) (15)
- A comparative handbook to the Gospel of Mark : comparisons with Pseudepigrapha, the Qumran Schrolls, and Rabbinic literature (2009) (15)
- Three Faiths, One God: The Formative Faith and Practice of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam (2002) (14)
- The Epitaph of Himerus from the Jewish Catacomb of the via Appia (1988) (13)
- Studying the Historical Jesus (1994) (12)
- God in strength : Jesus' announcement of the Kingdom (1981) (11)
- A Feast of Meanings (1994) (11)
- Jesus in Context: Temple, Purity, and Restoration (1997) (10)
- Abraham's curse : child sacrifice in the legacies of the West (2008) (10)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Bible (1997) (9)
- In Quest of the Historical Pharisees (2007) (9)
- Authenticating the Words of Jesus (2002) (9)
- The Missions of James, Peter, and Paul : tensions in early christianity (2005) (8)
- The Intellectual Foundations of Christian and Jewish Discourse: The Philosophy of Religious Argument (1997) (8)
- Authenticating the Activities of Jesus (1998) (8)
- A Galilean rabbi and his Bible: Jesus' own interpretation of Isaiah (1984) (8)
- A Galilean Rabbi and His Bible: Jesus' Use of the Interpreted Scripture of His Time (1984) (7)
- The Gospel according to John's Rabbi Jesus (2015) (7)
- Just war in religion and politics (2013) (7)
- Jesus and the Politics of Interpretation (2001) (7)
- Rabbi Paul: An Intellectual Biography (2004) (6)
- Mary Magdalene: A Biography (2005) (6)
- The Transfiguration: Dominical Assurance and Apostolic Vision (1980) (6)
- Judaic Approaches to the Gospels (1994) (6)
- Paul and Gamaliel (2004) (5)
- Jesus and Israel's Scriptures (1994) (5)
- A Comparative Study of Synoptic Development: The Dispute Between Cain and Abel in the Palestinian Targums and the Beelzebul Controversy in the Gospels (1982) (5)
- Visions of the Apocalypse: Receptions of John's Revelation in Western Imagination (2013) (5)
- Jésus, le mamzer (Mt 1.18) (2001) (4)
- The Kingdom of God in Recent Discussion (1994) (4)
- Jewish-Christian Debates: God, Kingdom, Messiah (1998) (4)
- Eucharist: Surrogate, Metaphor,Sacrament of Sacrifice (2002) (4)
- The Targum of Job (1993) (4)
- Studies in the Aramaic Interpretation of Scripture (2008) (3)
- The Language Environment of First Century Judaea. Jerusalem Studies in the Synoptic Gospels—Volume Two, written by Randall Buth and R. Steven Notley (2016) (3)
- THE HUNGRY KNIFE TOWARDS A SENSE OF SACRIFICE (1997) (3)
- Partings : How Judaism and Christianity Became Two (2013) (3)
- Types of Authority in Formative Christianity and Judaism (1999) (3)
- The brother of Jesus : James the Just and his mission (2001) (3)
- Stephen C. Carlson, The Gospel Hoax. Morton Smith's Invention of Secret Mark (2007) (3)
- Judaism in Late Antiquity, I, II, III (3 vols) (2002) (2)
- René Girard, James Williams, and the Genesis of Violence (1993) (2)
- RESURRECTION IN THE GOSPELS (2000) (2)
- Judaism in Late Antiquity 5. The Judaism of Qumran: A Systemic Reading of the Dead Sea Scrolls (2000) (2)
- Jesus and Sinners and Outcasts (2011) (2)
- Judaism and Christianity in the Formative Age (2008) (2)
- According To Mark (2010) (2)
- Jewish and Christian Doctrines: The Classics Compared (1999) (2)
- Uncleanness: A Moral or an Ontological Category in the Early Centuries A.D.? (1991) (2)
- The Glory of Israel: The Theology and Provenience of the Isaiah Targum (1982) (2)
- John XII 34 and Targum Isaiah LII 13 (1980) (2)
- Judaism: Practice and Belief 63 BCE-66 CE (review) (2012) (2)
- The Kingdom of God in the teaching of Jesus (1984) (2)
- Jesus and the Fundamentalism of His Day (2002) (2)
- Torah Revealed, Torah Fulfilled: Scriptural Laws In Formative Judaism and Earliest Christianity (2008) (2)
- God in the World (1997) (2)
- Appendix II. (The) Son Of (The) Man, And Jesus (2010) (1)
- Writing in Greek But Thinking in Aramaic: A Study of Vestigial Verbal Coordination in the Gospels (2013) (1)
- 11 Targum Jonathan: Former and Latter Prophets (2011) (1)
- Galatians 615: A Call to Freedom before God (1978) (1)
- Friends and enemies (2001) (1)
- The Missing Jesus: Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament (2002) (1)
- James, Peter, Paul, and the Formation of the Gospels (2005) (1)
- Profiles of a Rabbi: Synoptic Opportunities in Reading About Jesus (1989) (1)
- Isaac and the Second Night: a Consideration (1980) (1)
- IDEOLOGICAL DIETS IN A FEAST OF MEANINGS (1997) (1)
- The implications of textual variants for authenticating the words of Jesus (1999) (1)
- From Symposium to Eucharist: The Banquet in the Early Christian World By Dennis E. Smith Minneapolis, Fortress, 2003. 411 pp. $25.00 (2004) (1)
- Book Review: Pharisees, Scribes and Sadducees in Palestinian Society: A Sociological Approach (1990) (1)
- Method in a Critical Study of Jesus (2010) (1)
- JESUS, LEVITICAL PURITY, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRIMITIVE CHRISTIANITY (2003) (1)
- JESUS WITHIN JUDAISM (1994) (1)
- THE TEMPLE IN THE ISAIAH TARGUM (1997) (1)
- Theory of Israel (2001) (1)
- An Index to English Periodical Literature on the Old Testament (1978) (1)
- Greek Testament, Aramaic Targums, and Questions of Comparison (2013) (1)
- SHEBNA, ELIAKIM, AND THE PROMISE TO PETER (1997) (1)
- Opening the Book: Biblical Warrants for the Ordination of Women (1977) (1)
- Comparing Spiritualities: Formative Christianity and Judaism on Finding Life and Meeting Death (2000) (1)
- Genesis in Aramaic: The Example of Chapter 22 (2012) (1)
- Redeeming Time: The Wisdom of Ancient Jewish and Christian Festal Calendars (2002) (1)
- Book Reviews : Salvation Through Christ (1985) (0)
- The Covenantal Sacrifice of Sharings (1994) (0)
- 15 Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate and Renewal in Judaism and Christianity (2016) (0)
- John XII34 and Targum Isaiah LII13 (1980) (0)
- Book Review : Three Views of the Isaiah Targum (1985) (0)
- Christianity: The Basics (2014) (0)
- Implications and Prospects of Jewish Jesus Research: A Review Essay (2018) (0)
- M. P. Weitzman, The Syriac version of the Old Testament. An Introduction (2006) (0)
- 3 The Seven Rules of Targum (2011) (0)
- The Response of Christianity and its Counter-Claim (2003) (0)
- Appendix I. Rabbinic Rules Of Interpretation (2010) (0)
- 20 Genesis 22 in the Targumim and in Early Jewish and Christian Interpretation (2011) (0)
- Helmut Merkel, Bibelkunde des Neuen Testament. Ein Arbeitsbuch. (Mohn, 1978) 266 pp. + addendum (the letters to the seven churches, translated by H. Kraft) 28 DM (1979) (0)
- Mary Magdalene and History (2007) (0)
- Violence in the Scripture: Interpretation Resources for the Use of Scripture in the Church by Jerome F.D. Creach (2014) (0)
- Index Of Sources (2010) (0)
- Book Reviews : Easter Harmony (1984) (0)
- Authenticating the Words of Jesus & Authenticating the Activities of Jesus, Volume 2 Authenticating the Activities of Jesus (1998) (0)
- A Marginal Jew: Rethinking the Historical Jesus. Volume Three--Companions and Competitors (review) (2004) (0)
- The Mamzer Jesus and His Birth (0)
- The Cambridge Companion to the Bible edited by Bruce Chilton (2007) (0)
- Appendix A: The Parallel Expansions of Genesis 28–50 (2011) (0)
- Review of Michael P. Weitzman, The Syriac version of the Old Testament. An Introduction (2003) (0)
- 12 Targums to the Writings (2011) (0)
- James, the Brother of Jesus (2017) (0)
- Three Graves of Mary Magdalene (2010) (0)
- Jesus Research: An International Perspective—The First Princeton-Prague Symposium on Jesus Research (review) (2010) (0)
- Editors' Note (2010) (0)
- Appendix III. Rabbi As A Title Of Jesus (2010) (0)
- The Gospel of Jesus and the Ministry of Women (1978) (0)
- A COIN OF THREE REALMS (1997) (0)
- Index of Biblical Literatuare (2005) (0)
- Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel (2004) (0)
- Matthew and the Mishnah. Redefining Identity and Ethos in the Shadow of the Second Temple’s Destruction, written by Akiva Cohen (2017) (0)
- Luke and the Last Things: a Perspective for the Understanding of Lukan Thought . By A. J. Mattill Jr., Dillsboro, Western North Carolina Press, 1979. Pp. xi + 247. $8.95. (1980) (0)
- Two in One: Renderings of the Book of Isaiah in Targum Jonathan (1997) (0)
- Book Review: Abba Father: Understanding and Using the Lord's Prayer (2002) (0)
- 17 Comparing the Targums and the New Testament (2011) (0)
- Index of Ancient Literature (1999) (0)
- Paul's Thought and Life (2007) (0)
- Book Review: The One Who Is to Come (2008) (0)
- The Chimeric “Empty Tomb” (2019) (0)
- 14 Targums and Translation in the History of Rabbinic Literature (2011) (0)
- The Task of History for Ancient Israel (2007) (0)
- Authenticating the Words and the Activities of Jesus, Volume 2 Authenticating the Activities of Jesus (2002) (0)
- The Surrogate of Sacrifice (1994) (0)
- Chilton's "Targumic Approaches to the Gospels" (1990) (0)
- 8 The Pentateuchal Targums in Rabbinic Literature (2011) (0)
- Who Owns the Bible? A Judaeo‐Christian Argument (2003) (0)
- 14. Targum, Jesus, and the Gospels (2007) (0)
- Sacrificial mimesis : Christianity : a sacrificial or nonsacrificial religion ? (1997) (0)
- A Quest for the Social History of Basser's Studies (2001) (0)
- The Purity of the Kingdom (1994) (0)
- Appendix IV. Synagogues (2010) (0)
- A GENERATIVE EXEGESIS OF MARK 7:1–23 (1997) (0)
- Commenting on the Old Testament (1988) (0)
- Sacred Violence: Paul's Hermeneutic of the Cross; By Robert G. Hamerton-Kelly Minneapolis, Fortress, 1992. 230 pp. $24.95 (1993) (0)
- Revelation: The Torah and the Bible (1995) (0)
- Book Reviews : Censored Texts? (1984) (0)
- JESUS IN CONTEXT: AN INTRODUCTION (1997) (0)
- Chilton, "Profiles of a Rabbi" (1993) (0)
- 6 Sources of the Palestinian Targums (2011) (0)
- MAURICE CASEY'S ARAMAIC SOURCES OF MARK'S GOSPEL (2002) (0)
- The hermeneutics of the synagogue: An evaluation (2003) (0)
- Book Review: Are You the One Who Is to Come? The Historical Jesus and the Messianic Question (2011) (0)
- Anti-Judaism and the Fourth Gospel (review) (2004) (0)
- Book Review: An Introduction to New Testament Christology (1996) (0)
- INDEX OF SCHOLARS (2021) (0)
- 4 Rabbinic Literature (2011) (0)
- Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics (review) (2002) (0)
- 13 Aramaic in Judaism (2011) (0)
- 21 Targums in the Rabbinic World and Beyond (2011) (0)
- J. J. Griesbach: Synoptic and Text-critical Studies 1776–1976 . Edited by Bernard Orchard and Thomas R. W. Longstaff. Society for New Testament Studies Monograph Series 34, 1977. Pp. xvi + 224. £7.95. (1980) (0)
- Appendix B: A Guide to Babylonian Pointing (2011) (0)
- 18 The Aramaic Retroversion of Jesus Sayings (2011) (0)
- The Exodus Theology of the Palestinian Targumim (2014) (0)
- Authenticating the Words of Jesus & Authenticating the Activities of Jesus, Volume 1 Authenticating the Words of Jesus (1999) (0)
- Book Reviews : E. Bammel and C.F.D. Moule (eds.), Jesus and the Politics of His Day (Cambridge: CUP, 1984). Pp. xi + 511. £37.50. ISBN O 521 22022 X (1985) (0)
- Visions of the Apocalypse (2015) (0)
- Review : E. Bammel, C.K. Barrett, W.D. Davies (editors), Donum Gentilicium. New Testament Studies in Honour of David Daube (Clarendon Press, Oxford: 1978) 342 pages + x. £15.00 (1978) (0)
- Hurtado's "One God, One Lord" (1991) (0)
- Targumic Approaches to the Gospels: Essays in the Mutual Definition of Judaism and Christianity (1986) (0)
- The Heroic Ḥaṫaʾat: Pauline and Synoptic Symposia (1994) (0)
- Lüdemann's Surprise (2002) (0)
- World view, comparing Judaisms (2001) (0)
- E. P. SANDERS AND THE QUESTION OF JESUS AND PURITY (1997) (0)
- ANALYZING A JUDAISM How and why? Defining a Judaism and its components: what is to be (2006) (0)
- Index of Scripture and Ancient Writers (2007) (0)
- II ‐ Covenantal divide1 (2006) (0)
- Book review: Jesus in His Jewish Context (2004) (0)
- Conclusion: The Generative Exegesis of Eucharistic Texts (1994) (0)
- Book Reviews : Frank E. Gaebelein (ed.), The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Volume 9: John by M.C. Tenney, and Acts by R.C. Longenecker. Zondervan, 1981. Pp. 573. $19.95 (1984) (0)
- Jesus’ Dispute in the Temple and the Origin of the Eucharist (1996) (0)
- In Search of Jesus: Issues of Character (2007) (0)
- The Platform of Mark’s Gospel, Its Aramaic Sources and Mark’s Achievement (2014) (0)
- Conclusions and Questions (1999) (0)
- 9 Dating the Targums of Israel (2011) (0)
- THE HERODS: MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE ART OF SUCCESSION. By BruceChilton. Minneapolis, MN: Fortress, 2021. . Pp. xvii + 365. Hardback, $27.00. (2021) (0)
- Wisdom and Grace (2005) (0)
- Equality: More or Less (2019) (0)
- NO ORTHODOX, TRADITIONAL JUDAISM? The issue of the Mishnah, the Judaism of orthopraxy A religious system: not a book but a community (2006) (0)
- James, Jesus' Brother, and History (2007) (0)
- Peter in the Gospels: Pattern, Personality and Relationship (2003) (0)
- 2 Defining Targum (2011) (0)
- Intolerance: Political Animals and Their Prey (2017) (0)
- Index of Modern Authors (1999) (0)
- The Feast of the World's Redemption: Eucharistic Origins and Christian Mission By John Koenig Harrisburg, Trinity, 2000. 301 pp. $25.00 (2001) (0)
- 7 Targum Onqelos and the Targums of Israel (2011) (0)
- 5 Pentateuchal Targums: The Basics (2011) (0)
- 15 Targum as Scripture and Hidden Interpretation (2011) (0)
- Index of Subjects and Figures (2005) (0)
- Book Reviews : Snts Monographs (1984) (0)
- 19 The Fourth Gospel and Targumic Memra (2011) (0)
- Jesus' prayer and Jesus' Eucharist : his personal practiceof spirituality (1997) (0)
- 92 SEMINARY STUDIES (0)
- 16 Ancient Scripture Translations (2011) (0)
- A Bilingual Concordance to the Targum of the Prophets. Vol. 1, Joshua (1998) (0)
- 10 Targum Jonathan of the Prophets: Its Development as Revealed by the Targum of Isaiah (2011) (0)
- Jesus and the World of Judaism by Geza Vermes (London: SCM Press, 1983. pp. x, 197. £5.95) (1985) (0)
- READING THE SCROLLS SYSTEMICALLY (2001) (0)
- Book Reviews : Sermon on the Mount (1985) (0)
- A Comparative Handbook to the Gospels of Matthew and Luke (2021) (0)
- Trading Places (1996) (0)
- “Amen”: an Approach through Syriac Gospels (1978) (0)
- THE TRIAL OF JESUS RECONSIDERED (1997) (0)
- The Miraculous Food of Paul and John (1994) (0)
- Book Reviews : Robert W. Funk, Parables and Presence: Forms of the New Testament Tradition (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1982). Pp. xiii + 206. $15.95 (1984) (0)
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