The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages » (New Edition)

For the last two decades historians have sought the decisive point in Roman antiquity at which the "parting of the ways" between early Judaism and Christianity was complete. The essays gathered here challenge the assumption that any "parting" took place, arguing for ongoing relationships between Jews and Christians, in different and complex ways, for the first few centuries of the common era.

Foreword   Martin Goodman   Simon Price   Peter Schafer     vii
Preface to the Fortress Paperback Edition     ix
Introduction: Traditional Models and New Directions     1
What "Parting of the Ways"? Jews, Gentiles, and the Ancient Mediterranean City     35
Semantic Differences; or, "Judaism"/"Christianity"     65
The Weighing of the Parts: Pivots and Pitfalls in the Study of Early Judaisms and their Early Christian Offspring     87
The Lion and the Lamb: Reconsidering Jewish-Christian Relations in Antiquity     95
Modeling the "Parting of the Ways"     119
Beyond "Jewish Christianity": Continuing Religious Sub-Cultures of the Second and Third Centuries and Their Documents     131
The Jews and Christians in the Martyrdom of Polycarp: Entangled or Parted Ways?     145
Tractate Avot and Early Christian Succession Lists     159
"Jewish Christianity" after the "Parting of the Ways": Approaches to Historiography and Self-Definition in the Pseudo-Clementines     189
A Convergence of the Ways? The Judaizing of Christian Scripture by Origen and Jerome     233
Whose Fast Is It? The Ember Day of September and Yom Kippur     259
Zipporah's Complaint: Moses is Not Conscientious in the Deed! Exegetical Traditions of Moses' Celibacy     283
RabbiIshmael's Miraculous Conception: Jewish Redemption History in Anti-Christian Polemic     307
Jews and Heretics-A Category Error?     345
Did Jewish Christians See the Rise of Islam?     361
Beyond the Spatial and Temporal Limes: Questioning the "Parting of the Ways" Outside the Roman Empire     373
List of Contributors     393
Modern Author Index     397
Subject Index     403