Jewish Christianity : the making of the Christianity-Judaism divide / Matt Jackson-McCabe.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jackson-McCabe, Matt, author.

Series:

Anchor Yale Bible reference library.

The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Apologetics--History.

Apologetics.

Christianity and other religions--Judaism.

Christianity and other religions.

Judaism--Relations--Christianity.

Judaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2025.

Place of Publication:

London : Yale University Press, 2020.

System Details:

text file rdaft

Summary:

In this provocative work, Matt Jackson-McCabe argues that the concept of Jewish Christianity represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created the category of Jewish Christianity as a means of isolating a true and distinctly Christian religion from the Jewish culture of Jesus and the apostles. Jackson-McCabe skillfully shows how a category that began as a way to reimagine the apologetic notion of an authoritative "original Christianity" continues to cause problems in the contemporary study of Jewish and Christian antiquity.

Contents:

Introduction

The invention of Jewish Christianity: from Early Christian heresiology to John Toland's Nazarenus

Jewish Christianity, Pauline Christianity, and the critical study of the New Testament: Thomas Morgan and F.C. Baur

Apostolic vs. Judaizing Jewish Christianity: the reclamation of apostolic authority in post-Baur scholarship

The legacy of Christian apologetics in post-Holocaust scholarship: Jean Dani elou, Mrcel Simon, and the problem of definition

Problems and prospects: Jewish Christianity and identity in contemporary discussion

Beyond Jewish Christianity: ancient social taxonomies and the Christianity-Judaism divide.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-300-28803-4

0-300-18237-6

OCLC:

1202625014