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1 online resource (349 pages) |
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COVER PAGE; TITLE PAGE; COPYRIGHT PAGE; PREFACE; CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; PART I: Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism: The Modern Debate; 1: From Jules Isaac to Rosemary Ruether; 2: Consensus and Crisis in the Response to Ruether; PART II: Judaism and Judaizing Among Gentiles: Attractions and Reactions; 3: The Greek and Roman Encounter with Judaism: Philosophy and Politics; THE HELLENISTIC ERA (to 50 B.C.E.); THE EARLY ROMAN EMPIRE: 30 B.C.E.-140 C.E.; 4: The Later Roman Encounter with Judaism: The Politics of Sympathy and Conversion; 5: Against the Stream: Sympathy for Judaism in Imperial Rome |
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NICOLAUS OF DAMASCUS, DIODORUS OF SICILY, POMPEIUS TROGUS, AND STRABOLONGINUS, EPICTETUS, PLUTARCH; THE ESSENES; 6: Roman Policy Toward Judaism and the Rise of Christianity; THE NEW POLICIES ON JUDAISM; A TALE OF TWO CITIES; 7: The Dialogue of Paganism with Judaism in Late Antiquity: Philosophers and Magicians; THE "POPULAR" DIALOGUE: MAGIC, ALCHEMY, AND ASTROLOGY; PART III: Christianity, Israel, and the Torah; 8: Judaizing and Anti-Judaism in the Christian Tradition; JOHN CHRYSOSTOM; SYRIAC CHRISTIANITY IN THE EAST; IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH; PAUL AND THE CONTROVERSY OVER GENTILE BELIEVERS |
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9: Controversies and Debates Between Jews and ChristiansTHE EARLY DEBATE-THE CANONICAL GOSPELS AND THEIR SOURCES; LATER DEBATES BETWEEN JEWS AND CHRISTIANS; 10: Anti-Judaism in the Theological Response to Marcion and the Christian Gnostics; MARCION AND HIS THEOLOGICAL OPPONENTS: TERTULLIAN, JUSTIN MARTYR, AND ORIGEN; CHRISTIAN GNOSTICISM IN THE NAG HAMMADI DOCUMENTS; 11: Paul's Friends and Enemies; PAUL'S "FRIENDS"; PAUL'S PLACE IN THE CANON; PART IV: The Case of Paul; 12: On Reinventing Paul; SOME HERMEN EUTICAL ISSUES; THE CENTRAL ISSUES |
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13: Has Christ Abrogated the Torah? Has God Rejected His People?ROMANS 2-3; ROMANS 4; ROMANS 7; ROMANS 9-11; GALATIANS 3:28; GALATIANS 6:16; 14: What Circumstances Gave Rise to Paul's Extended Discussion of Israel, the Torah, and the Gentiles?; GALATIANS 2; GALATI ANS 3:1-4:20; GALATIANS 4:21-5:12; PHILIPPIANS 3:1-11; 2 CORINTHIANS 3; 15: What Was the Heart of Paul's Argument with the Jews, His Kinsmen by Race?; BOASTING; RIGHTEOUSNESS; FAITH; THE SINS OF THE JEWS; PERSECUTIONS; CONCLUSION; NOTES; GENERAL INDEX; INDEX OF BIBLICAL PASSAGES |
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This revisionist reading of early anti-Judaism offers a richer and more varied picture of the Jews and Christians of antiquity |
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Print version record |
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Paul, the Apostle, Saint -- Views on Judaism
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Paul, the Apostle, Saint. fast (OCoLC)fst00037330 |
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Christianity and antisemitism.
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Christianity and other religions -- Judaism.
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Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity.
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Philosemitism -- Rome
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Christianity.
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Christianity and antisemitism.
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Interfaith relations.
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Judaism.
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Philosemitism.
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Rome (Empire)
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Electronic book
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9780195365160 |
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019536516X |
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