Jews and Christians

by Dunn, James D. G.

• ISBN13: 9780802844989
• ISBN10: 0802844987
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-09-01
• Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co

Summary

This volume contains papers from the second Durham-Tubingen Research Symposium on Earliest Christianity and Judaism that help clarify the extent to which we can speak of the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism. Twelve internationally respected scholars carefully analyze the chief Jewish and Christian documents and traditions from the period A.D. 70-135, drawing out what they say about the mutual relations between early Christianity and Judaism and the light they shed on the diverging trajectories of these two major religious traditions.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. vii
"The Parting of the Ways" from the Perspective of Rabbinic Judaism	p. 1
Diaspora Reactions to the Destruction of the Temple	p. 27
The Septuagint as a Collection of Writings Claimed by Christians: Justin and the Church Fathers before Origen	p. 39
Syncretistic Features in Jewish and Jewish-Christian Baptism Movements	p. 85
Matthew's Christology and the Parting of the Ways	p. 99
A note on the textual evidence for the omission of Matthew 9:34	p. 117
"In Him was Life": John's Gospel and the Parting of the Ways	p. 123
The Understanding of Christ in the Pauline School: A Sketch	p. 159
The Question of Anti-semitism in the New Testament Writings of the Period	p. 177
The Parting of the Ways: The Evidence of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic and Mystical Material	p. 213
The Parting of the Ways: Eschatology and Messianic Hope	p. 239
Jewish-Christian Relations in Barnabas and Justin Martyr	p. 315
Problems of the Clementine Literature	p. 347
Concluding Summary and Postscript	p. 363
List of Contributors	p. 369
Indexes	p. 371
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