Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 611 g
Buch, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 611 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-538377-5
Verlag: ACADEMIC
Novel approach to the relationship between Christianity and Judaism in the first few centuries of the Christian Era.
Suggests a new outlook on the emergence of the rabbinic discourse of minut.
The emergence of formative Judaism has traditionally been examined in light of a theological preoccupation with the two competing religious movements, 'Christianity' and 'Judaism' in the first centuries of the Common Era. In this book Ariel Schremer attempts to shift the scholarly consensus away from this paradigm, instead privileging the rabbinic attitude toward Rome, the destroyer of the temple in 70 C.E., over their concern with the nascent Christian movement. The palpable rabbinic political enmity toward Rome, says Schremer, was determinative in the emerging construction of Jewish self-identity. He asserts that the category of heresy took on a new urgency in the wake of the trauma of the Temple's destruction, which demanded the construction of a new self-identity. Relying on the late 20th-century scholarly depiction of the slow and measured growth of Christianity in the empire up until and even after Constantine's conversion, Schremer minimizes the extent to which the rabbis paid attention to the Christian presence. He goes on, however, to pinpoint the parting of the ways between the rabbis and the Christians in the first third of the second century, when Christians were finally assigned to the category of heretics.
Zielgruppe
Students and Scholars of Ancient Judaism and Christianity
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften Altes Testament: Exegese, Geschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Religionswissenschaft Religionswissenschaft Allgemein Religionsgeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte
- Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Jüdische Studien Judentum und Weltreligionen, Weltethos
- Geisteswissenschaften Jüdische Studien Geschichte des Judentums Geschichte des Judentums: Biblische & Klassische Periode
Weitere Infos & Material
Abbreviations
Editions of rabbinic texts
A note on the translation of rabbinic texts
Introduction
1.: "Where Is Their God?" Destruction, Defeat, and Identity Crisis
2.: Conceptualizing Minut: The Denial of God and the Renunciation of His People
3.: Laws of Minim
4.: Becoming Minut: Labeling the Early Christians as Minim
5.: Christian Belief and Rabbinic Faith
6.: Significant Brothers
7.: Conclusion: A Different Perspective
Notes
Bibliography
