The Ways that Never Parted

Jews and Christians in late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Edited by Adam H. Becker and Annette Y. Reed. Foreword by Martin Goodmann, Simon Price and Peter Schäfer.

Traditional scholarship on the history of Jewish/Christian relations has been largely based on the assumption that Judaism and Christianity were shaped by a definitive 'Parting of the Ways'. According to this model, the two religions institutionalized their differences by the second century and, thereafter, developed in relative isolation from one another, interacting mainly through polemical conflict and mutual misperception. Drawing on the expertise of scholars of both Jewish Studies and Patristics, this volume offers an interdisciplinary perspective on the interaction between Jews and Christians between the Bar Kokhba Revolt and the rise of Islam. The contributors question the conventional wisdom concerning the formation of religious identity, the interpenetration of Jewish and Christian traditions, the fate of 'Jewish-Christianity', and the nature of religious polemics in Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. By moving beyond traditional assumptions about the essential differences between Judaism and Christianity, this volume thus attempts to open the way for a more nuanced understanding of the history of these two religions and the constantly changing yet always meaningful relationship between them. VIII,410 Seiten mit 9 Abb., Leinen (Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism; Vol. 95/Mohr Siebeck 2003) leichte Lagerspuren/minor shelfwear