While much work has been done on the role of Jews in the
crucifixion of Jesus in post-Holocaust biblical scholarship, the
question of violence in subsequent community formation remains
largely unexamined. New Testament passages suggesting that early
Christ-believers were violently persecuted--the "stone throwing"
passages from John, the "persecuted from town to town" passages in
Matthew, the stoning of Stephen in Acts, Paul's hardship catalogue
in II Corinthians, etc.-- are frequently read positivistically as
windows onto first century persecution; at the other extreme, they
are sometimes dismissed as completely a-historical. In either case,
scholars up until now have provided little in the way of
methodological reflection on how they have reached such
conclusions. A further problematic issue in previous readings of
passages suggesting such violence is that the perpetrators of
violence are frequently cast as "Jews" while the violated are cast
as "Christians," in spite of the growing consensus that it is
impossible to tease out these two distinct and separate religious
identities, Jew and Christian, from first century texts. This
volume takes up crucial methodological questions about how to read
passages suggesting violence among Jews in texts that eventually
became part of the New Testament canon. It situates this
intra-religious violence within the violence of the Roman Imperial
order. It provides new readings of these texts that move beyond the
"Jew as violator"/"Christian as violated" binary.
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