The ways that often parted : essays in honor of Joel Marcus /
"This volume of essays, from an internationally renowned group of scholars, challenges popular ways of understanding how Judaism and Christianity came to be separate religions in antiquity. Essays in the volume reject the belief that there was one parting at an early point in time and contest t...
| Other Authors / Creators: | Baron, Lori, editor. Hicks-Keeton, Jill, 1983- editor. Thiessen, Matthew, 1977- editor. Marcus, Joel, 1951- honouree. |
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| Format: | eBook Electronic |
| Language: | English |
| Imprint: | Atlanta : SBL Press, [2018] |
| Series: | Early Christianity and its literature ;
no. 24. |
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| Online Access: | Click here for full text at JSTOR |
| Summary: | "This volume of essays, from an internationally renowned group of scholars, challenges popular ways of understanding how Judaism and Christianity came to be separate religions in antiquity. Essays in the volume reject the belief that there was one parting at an early point in time and contest the argument that there was no parting until a very late date. Scholars re-examine texts authored by ancient worshipers of Israel's God, resulting in a complex account of multiple partings that occurred at different places and paces in myriad ways around the ancient Mediterranean in the first four centuries CE"-- <p> Focused studies on the historical interactions and formations of Judaism and Christianity </p> <p>This volume of essays, from an internationally renowned group of scholars, challenges popular ways of understanding how Judaism and Christianity came to be separate religions in antiquity. Essays in the volume reject the belief that there was one parting at an early point in time and contest the argument that there was no parting until a very late date. The resulting volume presents a complex account of the numerous ways partings occurred across the ancient Mediterranean spanning the first four centuries CE.</p> <p> Features: </p> Case studies that explore how Jews and Christians engaged in interaction, conflict, and collaboration Examinations of the gospels, Paul's letters, the book of James, as well as rabbinic and noncanonical Christian texts New evidence for historical reconstructions of how Christianity came on the world scene |
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| Item Description: | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 07, 2018). |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxv, 432 pages) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9780884143161 0884143163 |
| Author Notes: | Lori Baron is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Theological Studies at St. Louis University. She is the author of The Shema in the Gospel of John (forthcoming, Mohr Siebeck). Jill Hicks-Keeton is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She is the author of Arguing with Aseneth: Gentile Access to Israel's "Living God" in Jewish Antiquity (Oxford University Press). Matthew Thiessen is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University. He is the author of Contesting Conversion: Genealogy, Circumcision, and Identity in Ancient Judaism and Christianity and Paul and the Gentile Problem (both Oxford University Press). |