Partings
Subtitle: how Judaism and Christianity became two
By: edited by Hershel Shanks
Contributors: Vermès, Géza, 1924-2013
Publisher: Biblical Archaeology Society
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9781935335986; 9781935335979
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Origin; Primitive and early church; Judaism; Talmudic period; Interfaith relations; Relations; Christianity; Church history; Christianity and other religions; History
Description: When did Judaism and Christianity become two separate faiths? Had the process already begun in the decades following Jesus' crucifixion, or did it take centuries for the first serious and inexorable divisions to appear? Or is it the case that Judaism and Christianity share so much in common that they, in fact, never really parted? This book traces the compelling and often muddled history of Judaism and Christianity through their formative years, from the shared background of first-century Judaism and all its varieties to the diverse interactions and experiences of Jews, Christians and Jewish-Christians under centuries of Roman rule. More than a dozen chapters, authored by the world's foremost scholars in early Judaism and Christianity, tell the story of a complex and evolving "parting of the ways" that occurred in different places and at different times. Other chapters explore specific events and groups that may have shaped this history, such as the legendary Christian flight to Pella, the enigmatic Jewish sympathizers known as Godfearers, and the mysterious Torah-observant Christian sects of teh Ebionites and Nazoraens. -- from dust jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Jewish Jesus movement  -- Geza Vermes; title: From the crucifixion to the end of the first century  -- James D.G. Dunn; title: The God fearers: from the Gospels to Aphrodisias  -- Bruce Chilton; title: THe Christian flight to Pella? The archaeological picture  -- Pamela Watson; title: Parting in Palestine  -- Joan Taylor; title: Christianity in Antioch: partings in Roman Syria  -- Annette Yoshiko Reed and Lily Vuong; title: Living side by side in Galilee  -- Eric M. Meyers; title: Jews and Christians at Rome: an early parting of the ways  -- Margaret H. Williams; title: Christianity's rise after Judaism's demise in early Egypt  -- Robert A. Kraft and AnneMarie Luijendijk; title: Ebionites and Nazoraens: Christians or Jews?  -- Matt A. Jackson-McCabe; title: In between: Jewish-Christians and the curse of the heretics  -- Shaye J.D. Cohen; title: The complexities of rejection and attraction, herein of live and hate  -- Steven Fine; title: From Sabbath to Sunday: why, how and when?  -- Lawrence T. Geraty; title: Social organization and parting in east and west  -- Arye Edrei and Doron Mendels; title: Did they ever part? -- James H. Charlesworth.