Rebecca’s Children: Judaism and Christianity in the Roman WorldHarvard University Press, 15 de mar. de 1989 - 224 páginas Renowned scholar Alan F. Segal offers startlingly new insights into the origins of rabbinic Judaism and Christianity. These twin descendants of Hebrew heritage shared the same social, cultural, and ideological context, as well as the same minority status, in the first century of the common era. |
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... destruction of the second Temple by the Romans in 70 C.E. produced an enormous variety of Jewish communities , adapted to the plethora of new and different social , political , and economic environments brought about by the dispersion ...
... destruction of the Tem- ple stemmed not from the fact that Yahweh was viewed as a regional God only , because He was viewed as the Lord of all creation , but from the fact that He had been worshiped in a single , principal location for ...
... cannot be clearly seen , the human value of the vision becomes evident . God's presence moves like an earthly caravan , albeit a splendid one . Having abandoned the Temple just before its destruction , God's en- 14 Rebecca's Children.
... destruction , God's en- tourage travels the caravan routes , avoiding the deserts and thus arriving from the North instead of flying directly from the West . Yahweh literally removed His presence with the Israelites when they went into ...
... destruction , the new social experiment was planned to allow only pure Israelite marriages . The result was an idealized conception of the people , resting on the most widely understood basis of national definition , family struc- ture ...
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Society in the Time of Jesus | 38 |
Jesus the Jewish Revolutionary | 68 |
Paul the Convert and Apostle | 96 |
Origins of the Rabbinic Movement | 117 |
Communities in Conflict | 142 |
The Ways Divide | 163 |
Notes | 183 |
Scriptural Index | 197 |
General Index | 199 |