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Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity » (1st Edition)

Book cover image of Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity by Daniel Boyarin

Authors: Daniel Boyarin
ISBN-13: 9780812237641, ISBN-10: 0812237641
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: February 2004
Edition: 1st Edition

Author Biography: Daniel Boyarin

Daniel Boyarin is the Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture in the Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric at the University of California, Berkeley. He is the author of Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity, Judaism and A Radical Jew: Paul and the Politics of Identity, and other books.

Book Synopsis

"Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism. . . . In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."—Jack Miles, Commonweal

	Preface : interrogate my love
1	Introduction	1
Pt. I	Making a difference : the heresiological beginnings of Christianity and Judaism
2	Justin's dialogue with the Jews : the beginnings of orthodoxy	37
3	Naturalizing the border : apostolic succession in the Mishna	74
Pt. II	The crucifixion of the Logos : how Logos theology became Christian
4	The intertextual birth of the Logos : the prologue to John as a Jewish Midrash	89
5	The Jewish life of the Logos : Logos theology in pre- and pararabbinic Judaism	112
6	The crucifixion of the Memra : how the Logos became Christian	128
Pt. III	Sparks of the Logos : historicizing rabbinic religion
7	The Yavneh legend of the Stammaim : on the invention of the rabbis in the sixth century	151
8	"When the kingdom turned to Minut" : the Christian empire and the rabbinic refusal of religion	202
	Concluding political postscript : a fragment	227