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Border Lines - The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Paperback)
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Border Lines - The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Paperback)
Series: Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion
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The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often
figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two
separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one
religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then
took on a hybrid identity. Even before its subsequent division,
certain beliefs and practices of this composite would have been
identifiable as Christian or Jewish.In Border Lines, however,
Daniel Boyarin makes a striking case for a very different way of
thinking about the historical development that is the partition of
Judaeo-Christianity. There were no characteristics or features that
could be described as uniquely Jewish or Christian in late
antiquity, Boyarin argues. Rather, Jesus-following Jews and Jews
who did not follow Jesus lived on a cultural map in which beliefs,
such as that in a second divine being, and practices, such as
keeping kosher or maintaining the Sabbath, were widely and variably
distributed. The ultimate distinctions between Judaism and
Christianity were imposed from above by "border-makers,"
heresiologists anxious to construct a discrete identity for
Christianity. By defining some beliefs and practices as Christian
and others as Jewish or heretical, they moved ideas, behaviors, and
people to one side or another of an artificial border—and,
Boyarin significantly contends, invented the very notion of
religion.
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