Marcel Simon's classic study examines Jewish-Christian relations in
the Roman Empire from the second Jewish War (132-5 CE) to the end
of the Jewish Patriarchate in 425 CE. First published in French in
1948, the book overturns the then commonly held view that the
Jewish and Christian communities gradually ceased to interact and
that the Jews gave up proselytizing among the gentiles. On the
contrary, Simon maintains that Judaism continued to make its
influence felt on the world at large and to be influenced by it in
turn. He analyses both the antagonisms and the attractions between
the two faiths, and concludes with a discussion of the eventual
disappearance of Judaism as a missionary religion. The rival
community triumphed with the help of a Christian imperial authority
and a doctrine well adapted to the Graeco-Roman mentality.
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