Negotiating Identities: Conflict, Conversion, and Consolidation in Early Judaism and Christianity (200 BCE-600 CE) (Coniectanea Biblica)

Karin Hedner Zetterholm,Anders Runesson,Cecilia Wass�n,Magnus Zetterholm,Yonatan Adler,Michal Bar-Asher Siegal,Samuel Byrskog,Wally V. Cirafesi,Adela Yarbro Collins,John J. Collins,Genevive Dibley,Paula Fredriksen,Christine Hayes,Jutta Jokiranta,Moshe Lavee,Mark D. Nanos,Karin Neutel,Matthew V. Novenson,Adele Reinhartz,Anders Runesson,Rina Talgam,Matthew Thiessen,John Van Maaren,Cecilia Wass�n,Karin Hedner Zetterholm,Holger Zellentin

ISBN 10: 1978714734 / ISBN 13: 9781978714731

Published by Lexington Books/Fortress Academic 2022-09-15, 2022

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Negotiating Identities: Conflict, Conversion, and Consolidation in Early Judaism and Christianity (200 BCE-600 CE) (Coniectanea Biblica)
• Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic 2022-09-15
• Publication Date: 2022
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1978714734
• ISBN 13: 9781978714731
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes important aspects of identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the forming of group identities. Over time, some of these Jewish group identities evolved into non-Jewish Christian identities, others into a rabbinic Jewish identity, while yet others remained somewhere in between. The contributors to this volume trace these developments in archaeological remains as well as in texts from the Qumran movement, the New Testament and the reception of Paul’s writings, rabbinic literature, and apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings, such as the Book of Dreams and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. The long timespan covered in the volume together with the combined expertise of scholars from various fields make this book a unique contribution to research on group identity, Jewish and Christian identity formation, the Partings-of-the-ways between Judaism and Christianity, and interactions between Jews and Christians.

About the Authors

John J. Collins is Holmes Professor of Old Testament Criticism and Interpretation at Yale University Divinity School, USA.

Christine Hayes grew up loving stories about the creatures that curl your toes, and the legends that send a shiver down your spine. Now she loves writing about them, too. She lives in Utah with her family, her dog Chewie, and a collection of vintage finds that hopefully are not cursed.

Anders Runesson is professor of New Testament at the University of Oslo.