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This book examines literary analogies in Christian and Jewish
sources, culminating in an in-depth analysis of striking parallels
and connections between Christian monastic texts (the Apophthegmata
Patrum or 'The Sayings of the Desert Fathers') and Babylonian
Talmudic traditions. The importance of the monastic movement in the
Persian Empire, during the time of the composition and redaction of
the Babylonian Talmud, fostered a literary connection between the
two religious populations. The shared literary elements in the
literatures of these two elite religious communities sheds new
light on the surprisingly inclusive nature of the Talmudic corpora
and on the non-polemical nature of elite Jewish-Christian literary
relations in late antique Persia.
Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes
important aspects of identity formation processes within early
Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving
issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and
institution building contributed to the forming of group
identities. Over time, some of these Jewish group identities
evolved into non-Jewish Christian identities, others into a
rabbinic Jewish identity, while yet others remained somewhere in
between. The contributors to this volume trace these developments
in archaeological remains as well as in texts from the Qumran
movement, the New Testament and the reception of Paul's writings,
rabbinic literature, and apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings,
such as the Book of Dreams and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. The
long timespan covered in the volume together with the combined
expertise of scholars from various fields make this book a unique
contribution to research on group identity, Jewish and Christian
identity formation, the Partings-of-the-ways between Judaism and
Christianity, and interactions between Jews and Christians.
Stories portraying heretics ('minim') in rabbinic literature are a
central site of rabbinic engagement with the 'other'. These stories
typically involve a conflict over the interpretation of a biblical
verse in which the rabbinic figure emerges victorious in the face
of a challenge presented by the heretic. In this book, Michal
Bar-Asher Siegal focuses on heretic narratives of the Babylonian
Talmud that share a common literary structure, strong polemical
language and the formula, 'Fool, look to the end of the verse'. She
marshals previously untapped Christian materials to arrive at new
interpretations of familiar texts and illuminate the complex
relationship between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.
Bar-Asher Siegal argues that these Talmudic literary creations must
be seen as part of a boundary-creating discourse that clearly
distinguishes the rabbinic position from that of contemporaneous
Christians and adds to a growing understanding of the rabbinic
authors' familiarity with Christian traditions.
Stories portraying heretics ('minim') in rabbinic literature are a
central site of rabbinic engagement with the 'other'. These stories
typically involve a conflict over the interpretation of a biblical
verse in which the rabbinic figure emerges victorious in the face
of a challenge presented by the heretic. In this book, Michal
Bar-Asher Siegal focuses on heretic narratives of the Babylonian
Talmud that share a common literary structure, strong polemical
language and the formula, 'Fool, look to the end of the verse'. She
marshals previously untapped Christian materials to arrive at new
interpretations of familiar texts and illuminate the complex
relationship between Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity.
Bar-Asher Siegal argues that these Talmudic literary creations must
be seen as part of a boundary-creating discourse that clearly
distinguishes the rabbinic position from that of contemporaneous
Christians and adds to a growing understanding of the rabbinic
authors' familiarity with Christian traditions.
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