God the Father in rabbinic Judaism and Christianity: transformed background or common ground? From: Journal of Ecumenical Studies | Date: September 22, 2001| Author: Goshen-Gottstein, Alon | COPYRIGHT 2001 Journal of Ecumenical Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

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God the Father is a central tenet of Christian theology as well as of the faith of the historical Jesus. Students of both have resorted to comparisons with Jewish, particularly rabbinic, use of the description of God as Father. Usually, the upshot of those comparisons has been the superiority of the Christian understanding of the fatherhood of God. The present study examines anew the rabbinic reference to God as Father. Methodological care is taken to keep apart different li...

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