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Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Judaism and Christianity »

Authors: Graham N. Stanton (Editor), Guy G. Stroumsa
ISBN-13: 9780521590372, ISBN-10: 052159037X
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: May 1998
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Considers issues of tolerance and intolerance faced by Jews and Christians between 200 BCE and 200 CE.

	List of contributors
	List of abbreviations
	Introduction	1
1	Intolerance and martyrdom: from Socrates to Rabbi 'Aqiva	7
2	The other in 1 and 2 Maccabees	30
3	The pursuit of the millennium in early Judaism	38
4	Conservative revolution? The intolerant innovations of Qumran	61
5	Who was considered an apostate in the Jewish Diaspora?	80
6	Why did Paul persecute the church?	99
7	Paul and the limits of tolerance	121
8	Philo's views on paganism	135
9	Coexisting with the enemy: Jews and pagans in the Mishnah	159
10	Tertullian on idolatry and the limits of tolerance	173
11	The threefold Christian anti-Judaism	185
12	The intertextual polemic of the Markan vineyard parable	211
13	Jews and Jewish Christians in the land of Israel at the time of the Bar Kochba war, with special reference to the Apocalypse of Peter	228
14	The Nazoreans: living at the boundary of Judaism and Christianity	239
15	Justin Martyr's Dialogue with Trypho: group boundaries, 'proselytes' and 'God-fearers'	263
16	Accusations of Jewish persecution in early Christian sources, with particular reference to Justin Martyr and the Martyrdom of Polycarp	279
17	Early Christians on synagogue prayer and imprecation	296
18	Messianism, Torah and early Christian tradition	318
19	Jewish and Christian public ethics in the early Roman Empire	342
	Postscript: the future of intolerance	356
	General bibliography	362
	Index	365