The Ways That Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages [Paperback]

Adam H. Becker (Editor), Annette Yoshiko Reed (Editor)

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Publication Date: July 1, 2007

In this first paperback edition of a volume originally published by Mohr Siebeck in 2003, stellar international scholars question whether there in fact was a "parting of the ways" between Judaism and Christianity. Includes a new preface by the editors discussing scholarship since 2003.

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Essentially the essays contribute to a body of work that argues whether Jewish and Chrisitan identities ever "parted ways." It is an intiruguing investigation that takes a multidisciplinary methodology including historical, literary, textual, and cultural approaches. A challenging and rigorous volume. --National Federated Priests' Council, This Week

About the Author

Adam H. Becker is Assistant Professor of Classics and Religious Studies at New York University in New York City.

Annette Yoshiko Reed is Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

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• Paperback: 410 pages
• Publisher: Fortress Press (July 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0800662091
• ISBN-13: 978-0800662097
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 5.9 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.5 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Annette Yoshiko Reed is M. Mark and Esther K. Watkins Assistant Professor in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania; she is part of the core faculty of the Department of Religious Studies, as well as a member of the Jewish Studies Program and Graduate Group in Ancient History. After undergraduate studies at McGill University (BA 1997) and graduate studies at Harvard Divinity School (M.T.S. 1999) and Princeton University (M.A. 2001; Ph.D. 2002), Prof. Reed taught in the Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University until 2007, when she joined the Penn faculty. Her research spans Second Temple Judaism, early Christianity, and Jewish/Christian relations in Late Antiquity. Particular areas of interest are angelology and demonology; the redeployment of Second Temple Jewish traditions in late antique Judaism and Christianity; and the parallels and overlaps between Jewish and Christian self-definition in Late Antiquity. In much of her work, these issues are addressed through a focus on biblical interpretation -- broadly construed to include the composition and reception of parabiblical literature, the transmission and translation of biblical texts, the formation of canons, and the creation of historiographical systems based on biblical narratives. She is the coordinator of the Philadelphia Seminar of Christian Origins, as well as one of the co-chairs, with Zuleika Rodgers, of the Society of Biblical Literature's Hellenistic Judaism Section and a member of the Editorial Board of the book series Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism, published by Mohr Siebeck.

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The editors of said compilation has done a humongous job - not alone, that should be stressed, but having as many Scholars coupled in one piece, in each their way striving for enlightening their readers and themselves... That is quite a task! From a paradigm of protestant scholarship, where the oldest information was read to readings against the grain, readings with new spectacles donned; the result is jawbreaking. The contributors are honest in that what they put forward is fragmentary, which is why no monotone direction is pledged for - except this: breaking with the old way that viewed Judaism as the Mother of Superior Christianity. I am still getting the gist of this wirk and the battles of Dogma and Ideology that lurks behind the scene, and I invite everyone else to dare shed their old views of the world.