Crossing over sea and land
Subtitle: Jewish missionary activity in the Second Temple period
By: Michael F. Bird
Publisher: Hendrickson Publishers
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Peabody, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781598564341
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction. Excursus: "Jews" and "Judaism"; title: Defining "mission" and "conversion" in the ancient world. Mission and conversion : sociological and ideological elements ; Excursus 1: God-fearers ; Excursus 2: Proselytism and demographics; title: Jewish missionary activity in Palestine. Forced conversions in Palestine; title: Qumran ; Matthew 23:15 ; Inscriptions from Palestine ; Rabbinic literature; title: Jewish missionary activity in the diaspora. Socioreligious context of the diaspora ; Pagan attraction to Judaism ; Josephus ; Philo ; Apologetic-propagandistic literature ; Greek and Latin literature; title: Evidence from the New Testament and early Christian literature. An early Jewish Christian mission to gentiles ; Missionary competition between Jews and Christians; title: Conclusion.