Making myths
Subtitle: Jews in early Christian identity formation
By: Leonard V. Rutgers
Publisher: Peeters
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Leuven
Language: eng
Number of pages: 151
ISBN-13: 9789042922402
Subjects: Kristen identitet; Judaism; Urchristentum; Christianity and other religions; Literatur; Relations; Christianity; Church history; Identitätsfindung; Fornkyrkan; Primitive and early church; Christen; Judentum; Historia; Interfaith relations; Kristendom och judendom; Judenbild; History; Frühchristentum
Other titles: Jews in early Christian identity formation
Description: Exploring Jewish-Christian interaction in Late Antiquity in the form of three case studies, Leonard Rutgers shows that early Christian ideas about Jews and Judaism not only played a determining role in the ideologies that shaped early Christian identity formation, they also had a tendency to spill over into the real world. Therefore such ideas deeply influenced the dynamics of Jewish-Christian relations during a period that saw the curtailing of Jewish civil rights and liberties precisely as a result of early Christian exegetical activity.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 133-146) and index.
Table of contents: title: The importance of scripture in the conflict between Jews and Christians : the example of Antioch; title: Justinian's novella 146 between Jews and Christians; title: The synagogue as foe in early Christian literature.