Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary: Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah by Brant

Description: Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary by Brant James Pitre The bestselling author of "Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist" casts new light on the Virgin Mary, illuminating her role in the Old and New Testaments. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description The bestselling author of Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist casts new light on the Virgin Mary, showing that she is an icon for women and men to emulate in contemporary society."Brant Pitre is one of the most compelling theological writers on the scene today." -Bishop Robert BarronBestselling author of Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist casts new light on the Virgin Mary, illuminating her role in the Old and New Testaments.Are Catholic teachings on Mary really biblical? Or are they the "traditions of men"? Should she be called the "Mother of God," or just the mother of Jesus? Did she actually remain a virgin her whole life or do the "brothers of Jesus" refer to her other children? By praying to Mary, are Catholics worshipping her? And what does Mary have to do with the quest to understand Jesus?InJesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary, Dr. Pitre takes readers step-by-step from the Garden of Eden to the Book of Revelation to reveal how deeply biblical Catholic beliefs about Mary really are. Dr. Pitre uses the Old Testament and Ancient Judaism to unlock how the Bible itself teaches that Mary is in fact the new Eve, the Mother of God, the Queen of Heaven and Earth, and the new Ark of the Covenant. Author Biography BRANT PITRE is a professor of Sacred Scripture at Notre Dame Seminary in New Orleans, Louisiana. He is the author of the bestselling book Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist- Unlocking the Secrets of the Last Supper (2011). Dr. Pitre is an extremely enthusiastic and highly sought-after speaker who lectures regularly across the United States. He has produced dozens of Bible studies on both CD and DVD, in which he explores the biblical roots of the Catholic faith. He has also appeared on a number of Catholic radio and television shows, such as Catholic Answers Live and programs on EWTN. He currently lives in Louisiana with his wife, Elizabeth, and their five young children. Review "This book is vintage Brant Pitre: clear, persuasive, readable, and above all, inspiring. It causes us not only to know more about the Mother of God, but also to love her more." –Robert Barron, Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles and author of To Light a Fire on the Earth"Mystified by the way Catholics speak about Mary? Join the club! But if you – like me – have longed for a book that makes a good biblical case for Catholic teachings relating to Mary, then look no further! Brant Pitre has produced an absolutely riveting, page-turning read, surely the most thought-provoking and stimulating I have ever read on the subject." –Chris Tilling, Graduate Tutor and Senior Lecturer in New Testament Studies "I did not think a single book could be written about Mary that would excite and unite Catholic and Protestant readers - scholars, clergy and laity alike. What Pitre does with the Bible and Marian typology is clear and compelling. A joy to read, this is the best biblical study of Mary I have ever read. A true masterpiece." –Scott Hahn, author of The Lambs Supper and The Fourth Cup "Combining detailed biblical study with his own personal reflections, Pitre explains how Mary the mother of Jesus came to be regarded as a new Eve, a new Rachel, the ark of the new covenant, heavenly queen, perpetual virgin, and mother of God. The volume is an accessible, indeed essential, guide to Roman Catholic teaching, and it should interest anyone seeking deeper understanding of Marys role." –Amy-Jill Levine, University Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies, Vanderbilt Divinity School and College of Arts and Science"Brant Pitre takes important theological truths and makes them not only interesting, but exciting. This book will revolutionize your understanding of the most important woman in history." –Jennifer Fulwiler, author of One Beautiful Dream "Combining rich Biblical scholarship with an engaging, easy-to-read style, this highly accessible book offers a fresh look at Mary in the Bible. Pitre clearly and convincingly shows that the Bible reveals much more about Jesus mother than is commonly appreciated today. A must read for every Christian who takes the Bible seriously and is open to what Gods Word has to say about Mary." –Edward Sri, author of Walking with Mary "It simply is not possible to read the Christian Scriptures without reading the New Testament in light of the Old. With his rare combination of historical-critical mastery and theological erudition, Pitre illumines the whole Scriptures in pondering the figure of Mary." –Matthew Levering, James N. and Mary D. Perry Jr. Chair of Theology, Mundelein Seminary "Mary is not a…dogma, but a person. This climax, towards which Brant Pitre masterfully leads the reader, is exemplified throughout his book Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary, a study which is both careful in argument and breathtaking in scope. Pitres premise is that we must look to the Old Testament as well as the New Testament to find the Mother of God. In doing this, we follow the Church Fathers (and also the apostles!), who used typology to clarify both the person of Jesus and his mother. Readers will delight in a thorough but accessible presentation that judiciously incorporates Scripture, ancient writings, and contemporary scholars from Protestant, Catholic, Orthodox, and even Jewish contexts. Especially intriguing is his convincing construal of holy Mary as a new Rachel who intercedes for her children. Here is a winsome book, whose Catholic perspective will engage both Catholic and Orthodox who honor the Theotokos, and Protestants who have questions to ask about her." –Edith Mary Humphrey, William F. Orr Professor of New Testament, Pittsburgh Theological Seminary "Ive spent a long time reading books, loving books, collecting books...and Ive spent the last four decades evangelizing with books. So I know that this one is destined to become what the sisters call a bread and butter title. Thats convent talk for basic, necessary, life-giving, something you never get tired of. In other words, not a shelf-sitter or dust collector. This ones a gem and a keeper. It is absolutely clear, convincing, heartfelt mariology...and its also something you could easily give to your bishop or your hairdresser. Brants books have always opened doors for me, into familiar places and wonderfully unexplored places. But this one? This one is a golden door. Because he speaks of someone he loves, and you can feel it. So whether this is your first introduction to the beautiful Mother of God or whether it is a deepening of a love story already begun, this book deserves to be read and SHARED!" –Sr. Julia Darrenkamp, F.S.P., Pauline Books and Media Promotional The bestselling author of Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist casts new light on the Virgin Mary, showing that she is an icon for women and men to emulate in contemporary society. Review Quote "Once again, Dr. Brant Pitre takes important theological truths and makes them not only interesting, but exciting. This book will revolutionize your understanding of the most important woman in history." -Jennifer Fulwiler, author of One Beautiful Dream "Brant Pitre has a wonderful gift for blending insight, scholarship, and an elegant, appealing style. The result is an extraordinary encounter with Jesus Christ, the meaning of his mission, and the spousal nature of Gods love for humanity and Christs love for the Church." -Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Capp., Archbishop of Philadelphia "Pitre has a unique talent for putting scholarly work of the highest caliber into an accessible and engaging form." -Mary Healy, Sacred Heart Major Seminary "Pitres mastery of Scripture and the Jewish traditions makes him the perfect guide." -Dr. Tim Gray, President of the Augustine Institute Promotional "Headline" The bestselling author of Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist casts new light on the Virgin Mary, showing that she is an icon for women and men to emulate in contemporary society. Excerpt from Book Chapter 1 Introduction This book is written for anyone who has ever wondered what the Bible really teaches about Mary, the mother of Jesus. In particular, it is written for those who have been puzzled by, struggled with, or rejected Catholic beliefs about Mary as unbiblical--if not idolatrous. I should know. I was one of them. Heres how the story goes . . . The Problem with Mary When I was growing up, I had no problem believing what the Catholic Church teaches about Mary. I was born into a Catholic family, baptized as an infant, and raised in predominantly Catholic South Louisiana. Every Sunday, I attended a Catholic church that had several statues of Mary. On special occasions, I lit a candle and would ask Mary to pray for me. One of my earliest memories is of my mother taking my brothers and me to pray the Rosary with my grandmother and great-grandmother. While the women prayed, we boys would sit on the floor playing and listening and--if memory serves--getting pretty bored. However, by the time I was seven or eight years old, my older brother and I had picked up the practice for ourselves. Believe it or not, we boys used to kneel beside our beds at night for thirty to forty minutes while we read the Bible verses and said the prayers in a little book called The Scriptural Rosary. In the years that followed I would come to learn the basic teachings of the Catholic Church regarding Mary: that she was a virgin when she conceived Jesus (the virginal conception) and that she remained a virgin her whole life long (perpetual virginity). Eventually, I also learned that she was created without sin (immaculate conception) and remained sinless her whole life, and that, at the end of her life, she was taken up body and soul into heaven to be with the risen Jesus (bodily assumption). In all that time, it never once crossed my mind to question anything that the Church taught, believed, or practiced with regard to Jesus mother. To me, Mary was a real person, an ordinary part of my life. When I read Marys declaration that "all generations shall call me blessed" (Luke 1:48)--I knew that included me. Mary was the "Blessed Mother"--Jesus mother and mine. Things began to change, however, when I met my future wife, Elizabeth. Although she came from an even bigger Cajun family than mine--they had eight children, we had only six--she was not Catholic. Her family was Baptist. In fact, Elizabeths late grandfather had been a very prominent Southern Baptist missionary, who founded many Baptist churches along the bayous of South Louisiana. Her grandmother was also a well-known and much-loved matriarch of the local Baptist churches, and an amazing Christian woman. Given the predominantly Catholic population of South Louisiana, many of the members of her grandfathers churches were ex-Catholics who had left to become "Bible-believing Christians." In practice, this meant accepting the doctrine of the "Bible alone" (Latin sola Scriptura) and rejecting many Catholic doctrines and practices as contrary to Scripture. In particular, they were taught to reject the Catholic beliefs in Marys perpetual virginity and sinlessness as unbiblical, and to regard practices such as praying the Rosary and venerating Mary--all widespread in the popular piety of Cajun Catholicism--as idolatry. As you might expect, once Elizabeth and I began dating--at the ripe old age of fifteen--both she and her family began to ask questions about my beliefs. It was all the usual Protestant versus Catholic stuff: Why do you have statues in your churches when the Bible says make no "graven image"? Why do you baptize babies when they arent old enough to personally accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior? Why cant Catholic priests get married? And so on. Given the fact that Elizabeth is both very smart and very pretty, and that I really wanted to remain her boyfriend, I did my best to learn about my faith and answer their questions sincerely. And for the most part, it seemed to work fine. Her mother and father continued to allow me to see her, and even though she and I still disagreed about key practices and beliefs, we respected one another and our different faiths. In our sophomore year in college, we decided to get married. All that changed, dramatically, in the course of a single afternoon, not long before our wedding. Elizabeth and I had scheduled a meeting with the new pastor of her familys church in order to discuss getting married there. We assumed there would be no problems, since Elizabeths grandfather had built the church himself. However, once we sat down in the pastors office, what was supposed to be a brief meeting turned into a heated, two-hour-long interrogation of me by the pastor about my Catholic faith. Over and over again, he pommeled me with questions about purgatory, the saints, the pope, the Eucharist, and, of course, the Virgin Mary. I wrote about this encounter in my earlier book Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist. There I told the story of how I went home that night particularly upset about the pastors attack on the Catholic belief that the bread and wine of the Eucharist really become Jesus body and blood. I also told how that night, while searching for answers, I opened my Bible to the passage where Jesus declares that his "flesh" and his "blood" are "real food" and "real drink" (John 6:53-58). In part, because I immediately stumbled onto this key biblical passage, I never really lost my faith in Jesus real presence in the Eucharist. However, the impact of the pastors attack on my beliefs about Mary was different. When it came to Mary, I had no similar aha! moments. I did not go home and stumble onto passages in the Bible that clearly taught that she was immaculately conceived, that she had committed no sins, or that her body was assumed into heaven. To the contrary, from what I could tell, the New Testament had surprisingly little to say about Mary. Moreover, what it did say was sometimes cause for concern. In short, when it came to the biblical basis of my beliefs about Mary, the pastor had posed questions to which I had no answers. One question of his in particular stands out in my memory: the charge that Catholic veneration of Mary is not just unbiblical but idolatrous. The Queen of Heaven? "Why do you Catholics worship Mary?" the pastor fired off at me. "Dont you know God alone is to be worshiped?" Having paid some attention in my catechism class, I was able to reply: "As Catholics, we dont worship Mary. We honor her as the Mother of Jesus and the Queen of Heaven." " The Queen of Heaven?" he retorted. "Thats interesting. Do you know what the Bible says about the Queen of Heaven?" "No." I confessed. "What?" Knowingly, he opened his Bible and after flipping a few pages, said: "It actually mentions the Queen of Heaven in the book of Jeremiah. The Bible says she was a pagan goddess: [The LORD said to Jeremiah:] "Do you not see what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem? The children gather wood, the fathers kindle fire, and the women knead dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven; and they pour out drink offerings to other gods, to provoke me to anger . . ." (Jeremiah 7:17-18). "There it is, right there!" he announced. "The worship of the Queen of Heaven--exactly what you Catholics do to Mary--is condemned as idolatry." I sat in stunned silence. Although I had put up a fight for many of my other beliefs, I had no idea how to respond to this. To say the least, none of my catechism classes had ever mentioned the "Queen of Heaven" in the book of Jeremiah. Nor had anyone ever explained to me how we could refer to Mary as the Queen of Heaven when the Bible used the same words for the name of a pagan goddess. I thought about my favorite prayer, the "Hail Holy Queen" (also known as the Salve Regina) which I had said countless times at the end of every Rosary. All I could think was Is that what Ive been doing my whole life? Committing idolatry without even knowing it? Knowing he had scored a serious point, the pastor moved on to another topic. Fortunately, that meeting lasted only a couple of hours. However, the effect of the pastors questions about Mary had a much longer impact on me. They were like a crack in the windshield of my childhood beliefs--one that started small and slowly spread till I could no longer see clearly. When I looked for the biblical foundations of other Catholic teachings, I found what I considered compelling evidence. However, when it came to Mary, I kept coming up short. I was at a loss. The more I read the few passages in the New Testament that even mention Mary, the more trouble I had finding anything like what the Catholic Church teaches. Where is any of this in the Bible? I wondered. If youve studied the New Testament, you know what I mean. Where does it ever mention Marys immaculate conception? Seemingly nowhere. To be sure, the angel Gabriel calls Mary "full of grace" (Luke 1:28)--at least in some translations--but thats not exactly the same thing as "immaculately conceived." Or how about the sinlessness of Mary? It seems to fly in the face of the apostle Pauls declaration that "all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God" (Romans 3:23). And what about Marys bodily assumption into heaven? I couldnt seem to find that anywhere in the New Testament either. To be sure, the book of Revelation does describe a mysterious "woman" who is "in heaven" and is "clothed with the sun" (Revelation 12:1). However, I learned that many interpreters reject the idea that this "woman" is Mary (more on that later). In any case, Details ISBN0525572732 Author Brant James Pitre Pages 240 Publisher Random House USA Inc Year 2018 ISBN-10 0525572732 ISBN-13 9780525572732 Format Hardcover Place of Publication New York Country of Publication United States DEWEY 232.91 Language English Short Title Jesus and the Jewish Roots of Mary Subtitle Unveiling the Mother of the Messiah UK Release Date 2018-10-30 Publication Date 2018-10-30 Imprint Image AU Release Date 2018-10-30 NZ Release Date 2018-10-30 US Release Date 2018-10-30 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:119338790;

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