Synopses & Reviews
This collection of learned essays helps to clarify the extent to which we can speak of the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism in the period spanned by two Jewish revolts against Rome.Twelve internationally respected scholars carefully analyze the chief Jewish and Christian documents and traditions relating to the period, drawing out their significance for the topic. The result is an integrated and comprehensive study of the diverging trajectories of Judaism and early Christianity.Contributors: Philip S. AlexanderNeville BirdsallAndrew ChesterJames D. G. DunnMartin GoodmanMartin HengelWilliam HorburyHermann LichtenbergerJohn McHughChristopher RowlandGraham N. StantonPeter Stuhlmacher
Synopsis
This volume contains papers from the second Durham-Tubingen Research Symposium on Earliest Christianity and Judaism that help clarify the extent to which we can speak of the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism. Twelve internationally respected scholars carefully analyze the chief Jewish and Christian documents and traditions from the period A.D. 70-135, drawing out what they say about the mutual relations between early Christianity and Judaism and the light they shed on the diverging trajectories of these two major religious traditions.
Table of Contents
"The parting of the ways" from the perspective of rabbinic Judaism / Philip S. Alexander -- Diaspora reactions to the destruction of the temple / Martin Goodman -- The septuagint as a collection of writings claimed by Christians : Justin and the church fathers before Origen / Martin Hengel -- Syncretistic features in Jewish and Jewish-Christian baptism movements / Hermann Lichtenberger -- Matthew's Christology and the parting of the ways / Graham N. Stanton -- A note on the textual evidence for the omission of Matthew 9:34 / J. Neville Birdsall -- "In Him was life" : John's Gospel and the parting of the ways / John McHugh -- The understanding of Christ in the Pauline School : a sketch / Peter Stuhlmacher -- The question of anti-Semitism in the New Testament writings of the period / James D.G. Dunn -- The parting of the ways : the evidence of Jewish and Christian apocalyptic and mystical material / Christopher Rowland -- The parting of the ways : eschatology and messianic hope / Andrew Chester -- Jewish-Christian relations in Barnabas and Justin Martyr / William Horbury -- Problems of the Clementine literature / J. Neville Birdsall.