The Ways That Never Parted

by Becker, Adam H.

• ISBN13: 9780800662097
• ISBN10: 0800662091
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-07-01
• Publisher: Fortress Pr

Summary

In this first paperback edition of a volume originally published by Mohr Siebeck in 2003, stellar international scholars question whether there in fact was a "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity. Includes a new preface by the editors discussing scholarship since 2003.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface to the Fortress Paperback Edition	p. ix
Introduction: Traditional Models and New Directions	p. 1
What "Parting of the Ways"? Jews, Gentiles, and the Ancient Mediterranean City	p. 35
Semantic Differences; or, "Judaism"/"Christianity"	p. 65
The Weighing of the Parts: Pivots and Pitfalls in the Study of Early Judaisms and their Early Christian Offspring	p. 87
The Lion and the Lamb: Reconsidering Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity	p. 95
Modeling the "Parting of the Ways"	p. 119
Beyond "Jewish Christianity": Continuing Religious Sub-Cultures of the Second and Third Centuries and Their Documents	p. 131
The Jews and Christians in the Martyrdom of Polycarp: Entangled or Parted Ways?	p. 145
Tractate Avot and Early Christian Succession Lists	p. 159
"Jewish Christianity" after the "Parting of the Ways": Approaches to Historiography and Self-Definition in the Pseudo-Clementines	p. 189
A Convergence of the Ways? The Judaizing of Christian Scripture by Origen and Jerome	p. 233
Whose Fast Is It? The Ember Day of September and Yom Kippur	p. 259
Zipporah's Complaint: Moses is Not Conscientious in the Deed! Exegetical Traditions of Moses' Celibacy	p. 283
Rabbi Ishmael's Miraculous Conception: Jewish Redemption History in Anti-Christian Polemic	p. 307
Jews and Heretics-A Category Error?	p. 345
Did Jewish Christians See the Rise of Islam?	p. 361
Beyond the Spatial and Temporal Limes: Questioning the "Parting of the Ways" Outside the Roman Empire	p. 373
List of Contributors	p. 393
Modern Author Index	p. 397
Subject Index	p. 403
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