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Tertullian, "On Idolatry" and Mishnah "Avodah Zarah": Questioning the Parting of the Ways between Christians and Jews

By Stéphanie E. Binder

Book information

Publisher
Brill Academic Publishers
Year
2012
ISBN
9004234780, 9789004234789
ISSN
1388-2074
Google Books ID
HAYUjbBe8ggC
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (2847612 bytes)
Series
Jewish and Christian Perspectives 22
Pages
x+258\269
Topic
Religion Orthodoxy
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-04-17 08:55:34
Религиоведение;Религиоведение христианства;История

Description

This work studies and compares systematically the text of Tertullian, an African Church Father of the third century CE, on idolatry with the rabbinic Mishnah Avodah Zarah, on the same subject, dating roughly from the same period. Similarities and differences between the Jewish and Christian approaches to idolatry are examined and accounted for. The research is inscribed in the wider framework of discussions on the “parting of the ways” between Jews and Christians. It also addresses related questions such as the role of the rabbis in second and third century Judaism in the Land of Israel and in the Diaspora; relations between Jews living in those places; interactions between Jews and pagans, Christians and pagans, Jews and Christians...

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