by admin | Dec 20, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Dec 12, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Dec 7, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
by admin | Nov 29, 2021 | Uncategorized
The limits of rabbinic authority in antiquity are critical to our discussion on the relationship between emerging Jewish and Christian identities. The rabbinic class undoubtedly had influence and even power, but it tempered by a number of factors that are important to...
by admin | Nov 19, 2021 | Uncategorized
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...
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