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is See, for example, Donald A. Hagner, The Jewish Reclamation of Jesus: An Analysis and Critique of the Modern Jewish Study of Jesus (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1984); and Holwerda, Jesus & Israel, One Covenant or Two?

17 Rosemary Ruether, Faith and Fratricide: The Theological Roots of Anti-Semitism (New York: Seabury, 1974) 246-51. See also idem, `Christology and Jewish-Christian Relations," in Peck, ed., Jews and Christians after the Holocaust 25-38.

la E. P. Sanders, Paul and Palestinian Judaism: A Comparison of Patterns of Religion (Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977) 75.

19 See "The Fulfillment of the Biblical Covenants through Jesus Christ," in Blaising and Bock, Progressive Dispensationalism 174-211.

20 Grant R. Osborne, The Hermeneutical Spiral: A Comprehensive Introduction to Biblical Interpretation (Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity, 1991); Kevin Vanhoozer, Is There a Meaning in this Text? The Bible, the Reader, and the Morality of Literary Knowledge (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1998).

21 Walter Dumbrell, Covenant and Creation (London: Paternoster, 1997); John Sailhamer, Introduction to Old Testament Theology: A Canonical Approach (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1995); idem, The Pentateuch as Narrative: A Biblical Theological Commentary (Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1992).

22 Thomas Cahill, The Gifts of the Jews (New York: Doubleday, 1998).

23 Michael Wyschogrod, "Israel, Church, and Election," in Brothers in Hope (ed. John Oesterreicher; New York: Herder & Herder, 1970) 83; idem, "Letter to a Friend," Modern Theology 11 (1995) 171.

24 A consensus exists on this point among many engaged in historical Jesus research. See the works cited in n. 8 above.

21 On the disappearance of the variety of Judaisms after the crises of AD 70 and 135 and the rise of rabbinic Judaism vis-i-vis Christianity, see Marcel Simon, Verus Israel: A Study of the Relations between Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire, AD 135-425 (trans. H. McKeating;

reprint ed.; London: Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1986). Also see H. Shanks, ed., Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism: A Parallel History of Their Origins and Early Development (Washington, DC: Biblical Archaeology Society, 1992).

zs I develop the contrast between spiritual-vision eschatology and new creation eschatology along with implications for the question of millennialism in my essay, "Premillennialism," in Three Views of the Millennium and Beyond (ed. Darrell L. Bock; Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1999) 160-81.

CRAIG A. BLAISING*

* Craig Blaising is Joseph Emerson Brown Professor of Christian Theology at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2825 Lexington Road, Louisville, KY 40280.