The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780691160955)

How the rise of Christianity profoundly influenced the development of Judaism in late antiquity

In late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape its own identity. In The Jewish Jesus, Peter Sch臟er reveals the crucial ways in which various Jewish heresies, including Christianity, affected the development of rabbinic Judaism. He even shows that some of the ideas that the rabbis appropriated from Christianity were actually reappropriated Jewish ideas. The result is a demonstration of the deep mutual influence between the sister religions, one that calls into question hard and fast distinctions between orthodoxy and heresy, and even Judaism and Christianity, during the first centuries CE.

Author: Peter Sch臟er
ISBN-10: 0691160953
ISBN-13: 9780691160955
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/23/2014
Pages: 368
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.40w x 1.00d