The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways
Title | The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways PDF eBook |
Author | Marius Heemstra |
Publisher | Mohr Siebeck |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2010 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9783161503832 |
Slightly revised version of the authoor's thesis (Ph.D.)--Groningen, Netherlands, 2009.
The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways
Title | The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways PDF eBook |
Author | Marius Heemstra |
Publisher | |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2010 |
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How Rome's Administration of the Fiscus Judaicus Accelerated the Parting of the Ways Between Judaism and Christianity
Title | How Rome's Administration of the Fiscus Judaicus Accelerated the Parting of the Ways Between Judaism and Christianity PDF eBook |
Author | Marius Heemstra |
Publisher | |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9789036739283 |
The Ways That Often Parted
Title | The Ways That Often Parted PDF eBook |
Author | Lori Baron |
Publisher | SBL Press |
Pages | 461 |
Release | 2018-11-09 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 0884143163 |
Focused studies on the historical interactions and formations of Judaism and Christianity This volume of essays, from an internationally renowned group of scholars, challenges popular ways of understanding how Judaism and Christianity came to be separate religions in antiquity. Essays in the volume reject the belief that there was one parting at an early point in time and contest the argument that there was no parting until a very late date. The resulting volume presents a complex account of the numerous ways partings occurred across the ancient Mediterranean spanning the first four centuries CE. Features: Case studies that explore how Jews and Christians engaged in interaction, conflict, and collaboration Examinations of the gospels, Paul’s letters, the book of James, as well as rabbinic and noncanonical Christian texts New evidence for historical reconstructions of how Christianity came on the world scene
Jews and Christians – Parting Ways in the First Two Centuries CE?
Title | Jews and Christians – Parting Ways in the First Two Centuries CE? PDF eBook |
Author | Jens Schröter |
Publisher | Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Pages | 415 |
Release | 2021-08-23 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 3110742217 |
The present volume is based on a conference held in October 2019 at the Faculty of Theology of Humboldt University Berlin as part of a common project of the Australian Catholic University, the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Humboldt University Berlin. The aim is to discuss the relationships of “Jews” and “Christians” in the first two centuries CE against the background of recent debates which have called into question the image of “parting ways” for a description of the relationships of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. One objection raised against this metaphor is that it accentuates differences at the expense of commonalities. Another critique is that this image looks from a later perspective at historical developments which can hardly be grasped with such a metaphor. It is more likely that distinctions between Jews, Christians, Jewish Christians, Christian Jews etc. are more blurred than the image of “parting ways” allows. In light of these considerations the contributions in this volume discuss the cogency of the “parting of the ways”-model with a look at prominent early Christian writers and places and suggest more appropriate metaphors to describe the relationships of Jews and Christians in the early period.
Jewish and Christian Views on Bodily Pleasure
Title | Jewish and Christian Views on Bodily Pleasure PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Cherry |
Publisher | Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2018-10-01 |
Genre | Religion |
ISBN | 1532647441 |
At the beginning of the Common Era, Jewish renewal movements, including Jesus’ ministry, had similar views: embracing moderate ascetic behavior. Over the next three centuries, however, they moved in opposite directions. Christianity came to firmly privilege anti-pleasure views and female lifelong virginity while the Babylonian Talmud strongly embraced positive views on bodily pleasures and female sexuality. The books most distinguishing feature is that it is the first time that one book contrasts in detail the evolution of Christian and Jewish ascetic beliefs. More than other books, it systematically presents the critical role played by Babylonian Jewry: how they became the center of world Jewry with the virtual extinction of the Palestinian community; their decisive rejection, more so than the Palestinian community, of any ascetic tendencies; and how they came to migrate to the European continent during the medieval period. It concludes by relating how the eighteenth-century Hasidic movement and the nineteenth-century Irish devotional movement reestablished the contrasting views that helps explain why Jewish immigrants and not Irish Catholics came to dominate twentieth-century vaudeville.
Republican Jesus
Title | Republican Jesus PDF eBook |
Author | Tony Keddie |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 376 |
Release | 2021-09-09 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 0520385691 |
The complete guide to debunking right-wing misinterpretations of the Bible—from economics and immigration to gender and sexuality. Jesus loves borders, guns, unborn babies, and economic prosperity and hates homosexuality, taxes, welfare, and universal healthcare—or so say many Republican politicians, pundits, and preachers. Through outrageous misreadings of the New Testament gospels that started almost a century ago, conservative influencers have conjured a version of Jesus that speaks to their fears, desires, and resentments. In Republican Jesus, Tony Keddie explains not only where this right-wing Christ came from and what he stands for but also why this version of Jesus is a fraud. By restoring Republicans’ cherry-picked gospel texts to their original literary and historical contexts, Keddie dismantles the biblical basis for Republican positions on hot-button issues like Big Government, taxation, abortion, immigration, and climate change. At the same time, he introduces readers to an ancient Jesus whose life experiences and ethics were totally unlike those of modern Americans, conservatives and liberals alike.