Jewish-Christianity and the History of Judaism

✍ Scribed by Annette Yoshiko Reed

• Publisher: Mohr Siebeck
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 536
• Series: Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, 171
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"Jewish-Christianity" is a contested category in current research. But for precisely this reason, it may offer a powerful lens through which to rethink the history of Jewish/Christian relations. Traditionally, Jewish-Christianity has been studied as part of the origins and early diversity of Christianity. Collecting revised versions of previously published articles together with new materials, Annette Yoshiko Reed reconsiders Jewish-Christianity in the context of Late Antiquity and in conversation with Jewish studies. She brings further attention to understudied texts and traditions from Late Antiquity that do not fit neatly into present day notions of Christianity as distinct from Judaism. In the process, she uses these materials to probe the power and limits of our modern assumptions about religion and identity.

✦ Table of Contents

Table of Contents
Abbreviations
Primary Sources
Introduction: Historicizing “Jewish-Christianity”
Prolegomenon: Christian Origins as Jewish History
Part I “Jewish-Christians and the Historiography of Early Jewish/Christian Relations
Chapter One: “Jewish-Christianity after the “Parting of the Ways”
Chapter Two: Beyond “Judaism” and “Christianity” in the Roman Near East
Chapter Three: “Jewish-Christian Apocrypha and Jewish/Christian Relations
Chapter Four: Hellenism and Judaism in “Jewish-Christian Perspective
Chapter Five: Heresy, Minut, and the “Jewish-Christian” Novel
Chapter Six: “Jewish-Christianity” as Counterhistory?
Part II “Jewish-Christianity in Jewish History and Jewish Studies
Chapter Seven: Messianism between Judaism and Christianity
Chapter Eight: Secrecy, Suppression, and the Jewishness of Christian Origins
Chapter Nine: When Did Rabbis Become Pharisees?
Chapter Ten: Rethinking “Jewish-Christian Evidence for Jewish Mysticism
Chapter Eleven: The Modern Jewish Rediscovery of “Jewish-Christianity
Epilogue: After “Origins,” Beyond “Identity,” and Before “Religion(s)”
Appendix A: Timeline of Key Texts, Figures, and Events
Appendix B: Annotated Bibliography on “Jewish-Christianity”
Appendix C: Ioudaios before and after “Religion”
Appendix D: “Jew” and the Making of the Christian Gaze
Index of Sources
Author Index