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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.
In John within Judaism, Wally V. Cirafesi offers a reading of the
Gospel of John as an expression of the fluid and flexible nature of
Jewish identity in Greco-Roman antiquity. While many have noted
John's general Jewishness, few have given it a seat at the
ideologically congested table of ancient Jewish practice and
belief. By interrogating the concept of "Judaism" in relation to
the complex categories of "religion" and "ethnicity," Cirafesi
argues that John negotiates Jewishness using strategies of ethnic
identity formation paralleled in other Jewish sources from the
Second Temple and early rabbinic periods. In this process of
negotiation, including its use of "high christology" and critique
of Ioudaioi, John coalesces with other expressions of ancient
Jewish identity and, thus, can be read "within Judaism."
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