Jews and Christians in antiquity : a regional perspective / edited by Pierluigi Lanfranchi and Joseph Verheyden.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lanfranchi, Pierluigi, editor.

Verheyden, Joseph, 1957- editor.

William Alexander Lamberton Fund.

Series:

Interdisciplinary studies in ancient culture and religion ; 18.

Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion ; 18

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judaism--Relations--Christianity--History.

Judaism.

Relations.

Christianity.

History.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism--History.

Christianity and other religions.

Interfaith relations.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

vi, 370 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven : Peeters, 2018.

Summary:

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at two conferences on Jewish-Christian interaction in Antiquity held in Leuven and Aix-en-Provence in 2013 and 2014. It aims to introduce a different approach to this crucial topic and some new issues following from this. Specialists of Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, Patristics, Late Antiquity, Rabbinic Studies, Papyrology, Epigraphy, Hagiography, and Gnosticism have focused on such topics as the consequences of the Jewish wars for the relations between Jews and Christians in Palestina, the cultural and religious exchange between the two communities in Alexandria, Smyrna, Syria, the Jewish-Christian polemics in Rabbinic literature, the papyrological and epigraphic evidences of the Jewish and Christian presence in Egypt and Rome, the coexistence of Jews and Christians in Northern Italy, Hispania, North Africa, Gaul, etc. The papers are arranged chronologically (from the 1st to the 7th century CE) as well as geographically (the Eastern and Western part of the Roman Empire). The volume offers both "general surveys" and "case studies", each of them exploring different aspects of Jewish-Christian interaction.

Contents:

Jewish-Christian relations in Roman Judaea before and after the revolts, 66-136 CE / Peter J. Tomson

Some reflections on Origen, Celsus and their views on the Jews / Marco Rizzi

De vraies discussions entre Juifs et chrétiens? : le cas d'Origène / Gilles Dorival

Identifying Jews and Christians : the evidence of the papyri / Willy Clarysse

From Philo to Areimanios : Jewish traditions and intellectual profiles in first - third century Alexandria in the light of the Apocryphon of John / Daniele Tripaldi

Juifs et chrétiens à Smyrne au milieu du IIIe siècle d'après le Martyre de Pionios / Marie-Françoise Baslez

Les Judéens chrétiens et les Judéens synagogaux en Anatolie au IIe siècle : confrontation ou coexistence (Ignace, Polycarpe et Méliton) / Simon C. Mimouni

Ritual interactions between Jews and Christians east of Antioch / Gerard Rouwhorst

The parable of the twins in the Tosefta : an underlying reference to Jesus? / Thierry Murcia

The not so significant other : on the ideological roots of rabbinic-Christian polemics / Ron Naiweld

Juifs, baptême et magie chez Sophrone de Jérusalem et Jean Moschos / Christian Boudignon

Jews and Christians in the city of Rome : epigraphic evidence / David Noy

Jews and Christians in northern Italy : conflicts, violences, conversions, and daily coexistence in late antique Aquileia / Rita Lizzi Testa

A broken coexistence : anti-Jewish polemics and religious clashes in late Roman Hispania / Raúl González Salinero

Jews and Christians in late antique Africa : an hagiographical perspective / Sabine Fialon

Caesarius, bishop of Aries, the Jews and the Dreyfus affair / Pierluigi Lanfranchi.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-359) and indexes.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William Alexander Lamberton Fund.

ISBN:

9789042934610

9042934611

OCLC:

1031438292

Publisher Number:

9789042934610