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...
| Zusammenfassung: | "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"-- Samaritans, Jews, and Christians: multiple partings and multiple ways / Timothy Wardle -- John and Jesus in Josephus: a prelude to the 'parting of the ways' / Albert I. Baumgarten -- Paul, the animal apocalypse, and Abraham's gentile seed / Matthew Thiessen -- Some Pauline recollections; his and those of others; concerning tensions and differences in the beliefs and practices related to Judaism in the early church / Marion L. Soards -- Unveiling death in 2 Corinthians / Susan Grove Eastman -- 'Being a Jew and living as a gentile': Paul's story-telling, and the relationship of Jews and gentiles according to Galatians 2 / Michael Winger -- The Epiphany of Christ and the identity of Scripture / John M. G. Barclay -- Was Mark a supersessionist? two test cases from the earliest Gospel / Suzanne Henderson -- Sinai, Covenant, and innocent blood traditions in Matthew's blood cry (Matt 27:25) / Claudia Setzer -- The Shema in Mark and John and the parting of the ways / Lori Baron -- The Johannine Community under attack in recent scholarship / Martinus C. de Boer -- 'Among you stands one whom you do not know' (John 1:26): the use of the tradition of the hidden messiah in John's Gospel / Susan Miller -- Zeal for your house: a narrative critical reading of Psalm 69 in John 2:17 / Jill Hicks-Keeton -- Christian persecutions and the parting of the ways / Bart D. Ehrman -- Why Ignatius invented Judaism / Daniel Boyarin -- The Paraleipomena Jeremiou and Anti-Judaism / Dale C. Allison Jr. -- 'The blessed land and the inheritance of Israel': The Old Testament and Judaism in a fourth-century refutation of Marcion / Lucas Van Rompay -- Narrative and counter-narrative: the Jewish Anti-Gospel (The Toledot Yeshu) and the Christian Gospels / Philip S. Alexander |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
| ISBN: | 1628372168 |