How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they
come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their
own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory,
Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing
the birth of Christianity as a function of the Jewish past.
Surveying a range of ancient evidences, he examines how the authors
of Judaism's earliest surviving memories of Christianity speak to
the perspectives of rabbinic observers who were conditioned by the
unique circumstances of their encounters with Christianity to
recognize its adherents as fellow Jews. Only upon the decline of
the Church's Jewish demographic were their successors compelled to
see Christianity as something other than a variation of Jewish
cultural expression. The evolution of thought in the classical
Jewish literary record thus offers a dynamic account of
Christianity's separation from Judaism counterbalancing the abrupt
schism attested in contemporary Christian texts.
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