Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity

by Edited by Graham N. Stanton , Guy G. Stroumsa

• ISBN13: 9780521050579
• ISBN10: 052105057X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-02-11
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

The essays in this book consider issues of tolerance and intolerance faced by Jews and Christians between approximately 200 BCE and 200 CE. Several chapters are concerned with many different aspects of early Jewish-Christian relationships. Five scholars, however, take a difference tack and discuss how Jews and Christians defined themselves against the pagan world. As minority groups, both Jews and Christians had to work out ways of co-existing with their Graeco-Roman neighbours. Relationships with those neighbours were often strained, but even within both Jewish and Christian circles, issues of tolerance and intolerance surfaced regularly. So it is appropriate that some other contributors should consider 'inner-Jewish' relationships, and that some should be concerned with Christian sects.

Table of Contents

List of contributors

List of abbreviations

Introduction

Intolerance and martyrdom: from Socrates to Rabbi'Aqiva

The other in 1 and 2 Maccabees

The pursuit of the millennium in early Judaism

Conservative revolution? The intolerant innovations of Qumran

Who was considered an apostate in the Jewish Diaspora?

Why did Paul persecute the church?

Paul and the limits of tolerance

Philo-s views on paganism

Co-existing with the enemy: Jews and pagans in the Mishnah

Tertullian on idolatry and the limits of tolerance

The threefold Christian anti-Judaism

The intertextual polemic of the Markan vineyard parable

Jews and Jewish Christians in the land of Israel at the time of the Bar Kochba war, with special reference to the Apocalypse of Peter

The Nazoreans: living at the boundary of Judaism and Christianity

Justin Martyr-s Dialogue with Trypho: group boundaries, -proselytes- and -God-fearers-

Accusations of Jewish persecution in early Christian sources, with particular reference to Justin Martyr and the Martyrdom of Polycarp

Early Christians on synagogue prayer and imprecation

Messianism, Torah and early Christian tradition

Jewish and Christian public ethics in the early Roman Empire

Postscript: the future of intolerance

General bibliography

Index

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