Atonement

“Taking a broad approach to the topic, this fine collection of essays by international experts combines close textual analysis with fascinating overviews of the diverse Jewish and early Christian discourses concerning repair of the ruptured relationship between humanity and God. Readers will find insights aplenty, and some real gems.”
— John M. G. Barclay
Durham University

“For a variety of reasons, understanding the atonement will be a project that will never finish. Every generation of scholars must put its shoulder to the oar. In this volume the reader will encounter the intellectual guidance of some of the foremost experts in the field.”
— Gary A. Anderson
University of Notre Dame

“It is rare to find a source which combines such varying voices and expertises in the way this volume does. Drawing on fresh and original scholarship in both Hebrew Bible and New Testament, Judaism, and early Christianity, Atonement should become required reading for anyone interested in this contested concept which remains central to the religious self-understanding of both Christians and Jews.”
— Loveday Alexander
University of Sheffield

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“This volume tackles the complex cluster of conceptions regarding atonement as they unfolded (or remained entangled or in tension with each other) in the literature that came to comprise the Hebrew and Christian scriptural canons and in some related literature. . . . The collection makes a signal contribution in its encapsulation and extension of previous investigations and in its coordination of segments of the ancient evidence that are not always directly juxtaposed and brought into conversation with each other.”

Brian Yong Lee in Review of Biblical Literature
“A rich smorgasbord of scholarship on the relationship between sin, sacrifice, and salvation in Hebrew Bible, Second Temple Judaism, and early Christianity that I can recommend to readers of all levels, but particularly graduate students.”