The Ways that Never Parted
Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
by Adam H. Becker and Annette Yoshiho Reed
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(December 2003)
ISBN: 9783161479663
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Traditional scholarship on the history of Jewish/Christian relations has been largely based on the assumption that Judaism and Christianity were shaped by a definitive ‘Parting of the Ways’. According to this model, the two religions institutionalized their differences by the second century and, thereafter, developed in relative isolation from one another, interacting mainly through polemical conflict and mutual misperception.This volume grows out of a joint Princeton-Oxford project dedicated to exploring the limits of the traditional model and to charting new directions for future research. Drawing on the expertise of scholars of both Jewish Studies and Patristics, it offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the interaction between Jews and Christians between the Bar Kokhba Revolt and the rise of Islam. The contributors question the conventional wisdom concerning the formation of religious identity, the interpenetration of Jewish and Christian traditions, the fate of ‘Jewish-Christianity’, and the nature of religious polemics in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. By moving beyond traditional assumptions about the essential differences between Judaism and Christianity, this volume thus attempts to open the way for a more nuanced understanding of the history of these two religions and the constantly changing yet always meaningful relationship between them.
Traditional scholarship on the history of Jewish/Christian relations has been largely based on the assumption that Judaism and Christianity were shaped by a definitive ‘Parting of the Ways’. According to this model, the two religions institutionalized their differences by the second century and, thereafter, developed in relative isolation from one another, interacting mainly through polemical conflict and mutual misperception.This volume grows out of a joint Princeton-Oxford project dedicated to exploring the limits of the traditional model and to charting new directions for future research. Drawing on the expertise of scholars of both Jewish Studies and Patristics, it offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the interaction between Jews and Christians between the Bar Kokhba Revolt and the rise of Islam. The contributors question the conventional wisdom concerning the formation of religious identity, the interpenetration of Jewish and Christian traditions, the fate of ‘Jewish-Christianity’, and the nature of religious polemics in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. By moving beyond traditional assumptions about the essential differences between Judaism and Christianity, this volume thus attempts to open the way for a more nuanced understanding of the history of these two religions and the constantly changing yet always meaningful relationship between them.
- By (author) Adam H Becker
- By (author) Annette Yoshiho Reed
Other Titles in this Series
Building on the Ruins of the Temple
Apologetics and Polemics in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism
The Meshalim in the Mekhiltot
An Annotated Edition and Translation of the Parables in Mekhilta de Rabbi Yishmael and Mekhilta de Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai
Abduktives Denken und talmudische Argumentation
Eine rechtstheoretische Annäherung an eine zentrale Interpretationsfigur im babylonischen Talmud
Above, Below, Before, and After
Studies in Judaism and Christianity in Conversation with Martha Himmelfarb
Die ptolemäische Organisationsform politeuma
Ein Herrschaftsinstrument zugunsten jüdischer und anderer hellenischer Gemeinschaften
Tod und Sterben im Krieg bei Josephus
Die Intentionen von Bellum und Antiquitates im Kontext griechisch-römischer Historiographie
Sefer Shimmush Tehillim – Buch vom magischen Gebrauch der Psalmen
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