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Heresy, Forgery, Novelty - Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovation in Ancient Judaism (Hardcover)
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Heresy, Forgery, Novelty - Condemning, Denying, and Asserting Innovation in Ancient Judaism (Hardcover)
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It is commonly asserted that heresy is a Christian invention that
emerged in late antiquity as Christianity distinguished itself from
Judaism. Heresy, Forgery, Novelty probes ancient Jewish disputes
regarding religious innovation and argues that Christianity's
heresiological impulse is in fact indebted to Jewish precedents. In
this book, Jonathan Klawans demonstrates that ancient Jewish
literature displays a profound unease regarding religious
innovation. The historian Josephus condemned religious innovation
outright, and later rabbis valorize the antiquity of their
traditions. The Dead Sea sectarians spoke occasionally-and perhaps
secretly-of a "new covenant," but more frequently masked newer
ideas in rhetorics of renewal or recovery. Other ancient Jews
engaged in pseudepigraphy-the false attribution of recent works to
prophets of old. The flourishing of such religious forgeries
further underscores the dangers associated with religious
innovation. As Christianity emerged, the discourse surrounding
religious novelty shifted dramatically. On the one hand, Christians
came to believe that Jesus had inaugurated a "new covenant,"
replacing what came prior. On the other hand, Christian writers
followed their Jewish predecessors in condemning heretics as
dangerous innovators, and concealing new works in pseudepigraphic
garb. In its open, unabashed embrace of new things, Christianity
parts from Judaism. Christianity's heresiological condemnation of
novelty, however, displays continuity with prior Jewish traditions.
Heresy, Forgery, Novelty reconsiders and offers a new
interpretation of the dynamics of the split between Judaism and
Christianity.
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