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Verus Israel : a study of the relations between Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire, AD 135-425 / Marcel Simon ; translated from the French by H. McKeating.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Simon, Marcel, author.
- Series:
- Littman library of Jewish civilization (Series)
- The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Genre:
- History
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (554 pages).
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Portland, Oregon : The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 2009.
- Summary:
- Marcel Simon's classic study examines Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire from the second Jewish War (132-5 CE) to the end of the Jewish Patriarchate in 425 CE. First published in French in 1948, the book overturns the then commonly held view that the Jewish and Christian communities gradually ceased to interact and that the Jews gave up proselytizing among the gentiles. On the contrary, Simon maintains that Judaism continued to make its influence felt on the world at large and to be influenced by it in turn. He analyses both the antagonisms and the attractions between the two faith.
- Contents:
- Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Publisher's Note; Introduction; Part 1: The Religious and Political Setting; 1: The Aftermath: Palestinian Judaism; 2: The Aftermath: The Diaspora; 3: The Church and Israel; 4: Rome, Judaism, and Christianity; Part 2: The Conflict of Orthodxies; 5: Anti-Jewish Polemic, its Characteristics and Methods; 6: Anti-Jewish Polemic-The Arguments Employed; 7: The Christians in the Talmud; 8: Christian Anti-Semitism; Part 3: Contact and Assimilation; 9: The Fate of Jewish Christianity; 10: Jewish Proselytism; 11: The Judaizers within the Church.
- 12: Superstition and MagicConclusion; Postscript; Bibliography; Supplementary Bibliography; Notes; Translations from Greek, Latin, and German; Index.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-909821-78-0
- OCLC:
- 1048791736
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