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Jews and Christians: The Parting of the Ways, A.D. 70 to 135 »

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Authors: James D. Dunn (Editor), James D. Dunn
ISBN-13: 9780802844989, ISBN-10: 0802844987
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Eerdmans, William B. Publishing Company
Date Published: February 1999
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: James D. Dunn

Book 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

Preface
"The Parting of the Ways" from the Perspective of Rabbinic Judaism1
Diaspora Reactions to the Destruction of the Temple27
The Septuagint as a Collection of Writings Claimed by Christians: Justin and the Church Fathers before Origen39
Syncretistic Features in Jewish and Jewish-Christian Baptism Movements85
Matthew's Christology and the Parting of the Ways99
A note on the textual evidence for the omission of Matthew 9:34117
"In Him was Life": John's Gospel and the Parting of the Ways123
The Understanding of Christ in the Pauline School: A Sketch159
The Question of Anti-semitism in the New Testament Writings of the Period177
The Parting of the Ways: The Evidence of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic and Mystical Material213
The Parting of the Ways: Eschatology and Messianic Hope239
Jewish-Christian Relations in Barnabas and Justin Martyr315
Problems of the Clementine Literature347
Concluding Summary and Postscript363
List of Contributors369
Indexes371

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