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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.
Few scholars have influenced New Testament scholarship in the areas
of orality, memory, and tradition more profoundly than Birger
Gerhardsson. Today, as these topics have again become important in
biblical scholarship, his pioneering work takes on a new light.
Though the esteemed contributors may differ on issues in the
burgeoning study, they have all enthusiastically taken on the dual
task of evaluating Gerhardsson's contribution anew and bringing his
insights up to date within the current debate. Additional
contributors are Loveday Alexander (University of Sheffield), David
E. Aune (University of Notre Dame), Martin S. Jaffee (University of
Washington), Alan Kirk (James Madison University), Terence Mournet
(North American Baptist Seminary), and Christopher Tuckett
(University of Oxford/Pembroke College).
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