Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: The Interbellum 70-132 CE

J. Schwartz, P. J. Tomson

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Abstract

This work discusses crucial aspects of the period between the two revolts against Rome in Judaea that saw the rise of rabbinic Judaism and of the separation between Judaism and Christianity. Most contributors no longer support the 'maximalist' claim that around 100 CE, a powerful rabbinic regime was already in place. Rather, the evidence points to the appearance of the rabbinic movement as a group with a regional power base and with limited influence. The period is best seen as one of transition from the multiform Judaism revolving around the Second Temple in Jerusalem to a Judaism that was organized around synagogue, Tora, and sages and that parted ways with Christianity. Introduction / Joshua Schwartz and Peter J. Tomson -- Interbellum Judea 70-132 CE : an Archaeological perspective / Boaz Zissu -- Adapted Roman rituals in Second Century C E Jewish houses / EyaL Baruch -- Lod of the Yavne Period : how a city was cheated out of its period / Joshua Schwartz -- position and authority of the provincial legate and the financial procurator in Judaea, 70-136 AD / Werner Eck -- Judaea after 70 : delegation of authority by Rome? / Benjamin Isaac -- Jews and Christians under Trjan and the date of Ignatius' martyrdom / Marco Rizzi -- 'He will bear the name of a sea' : Jewish expectations of Hadrian and his imperial strategy before 130 CE / Francesco Ziosi -- The liminal time from the temple's destruction until Yavne, 70-85/90 CE / Ben-Zion Rosenfeld -- 70 CE or 135 CE -where was the watershed? ancient and modem perspectives / David Levine -- Uncertain symbol : the representation of Yavne in the Talmud Yerushalmi / Catherine Hezser -- Transmission and evolution of the Story of R. Gamliel's deposition / Moshe Simon-Shoshan -- Were the Noahide commandments formulated at Yavne? : Tosefta Avoda Zara 8:4-9 in cultural and historical context / Christine Hayes -- The historicity of Yavnean traditions : the case of Jewish liturgy / Lee I. Levine -- Jewish revolts and Jewish-Christian relations / James Carleton Paget -- The ways that parted : Jews, Christians, and Jewish-Christians, ca. 100-150 CE / Shaye J.D. Cohen -- Christian Gnosticism and Judaism in the first decades of the second century / Christoph Markschies -- Josephus on the temple from a Post-70 perspective / Jan Willemvan Henten -- Matthew and Yavne : religious authority in the making? / Eric Ottenheijm -- Liber antiquitatum biblicarum : A para-rabbinic Jewish source close to the Yavne period / Ze'ev Safrai -- Josephus, Luke-Acts, and Politics in Rome and Judaea by 100 CE / Peter J. Tomson.
Original languageEnglish
Place of PublicationLeiden
PublisherBrill
Number of pages548
ISBN (Electronic)978-90-04-35297-1
ISBN (Print)978-90-04-34986-5
DOIs
StatePublished - 2017

Publication series

NameCompendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum
PublisherBrill Academic Publishers
Volume15
ISSN (Print)1877-4970

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