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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... political science , economics , psychology , sociology , and an- thropology — in short , all relevant humanities and social sci- ences . As a result , these two great religions are analyzed within their social , economic , and political ...
... politics of the narrators . Even in the accounts of the patriarchal covenants , which were supposed to have taken place in the most distant past , the assumptions of the narrators are apparent , as in Genesis 15 : After these things the ...
... political , and economic environments brought about by the dispersion of Jews throughout the ancient world . In each place where Jews sought to dwell , the meaning of the covenant seemed dif- ferent . This spectrum of opinion ...
... political establishment ; others favored it . But their successful predictions of national destruc- tion convinced later Israelite society that they all spoke the word of Yahweh . The razing of the Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem in the ...
... do with the Judeans ' political fortune . As Ezra said , they were not the masters of their own land . The Davidic king had in effect dis- appeared . This led to an enormous amount of speculation 20 Rebecca's Children.
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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 |