Too Close for Comfort

Too Close for Comfort

The closeness of Christians to Jews in the early centuries of the Common Era was troubling to the nascent Church Fathers. They repeatedly speak out against it because they understood that many Christians saw Jews in a very different light than what the emerging church...
Too Close for Comfort

Too Close for Comfort

The closeness of Christians to Jews in the early centuries of the Common Era was troubling to the nascent Church Fathers. They repeatedly speak out against it because they understood that many Christians saw Jews in a very different light than what the emerging church...
Too Close for Comfort

How important was the Birkat HaMinim?

Does the Birkat Haminim really show the Break between Jews and Christians? Did its adoption point to a definitive break between both communities? The institution of the Birkat HaMinim,  i.e., the malediction against heretics by the rabbi’s at Yavneh is...
Too Close for Comfort

Jesus Oriented Judaisms?

The third episode behinds the discussion on the intermediate groups that lay between Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. Karin Zetterhold designates some of these groups occupying the middle ground of identity as Jesus-oriented Judaisms. They undoubtedly saw...