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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... religions - Judaism . 2. Judaism Relations Christianity . 3. Rome Religion . 4. Rome Social conditions . BM535.S329 1986 I. Title . 296.8'1 85-17656 ISBN 0-674-75075-6 ( cloth ) ( alk . paper ) ISBN 0-674-75076-4 ( paper ) Biblical ...
... religion and other religious writings to which we still give credence. A root metaphor or myth usually takes the form of a story about the cosmos. Although the story may be amusing or enjoyable, it also has four serious functions: to ...
... religion . So great is the contrast between previous Jewish religious systems and rabbinism that Judaism and Christianity can es- sentially claim a twin birth . It is a startling truth that the reli- gions we know today as Judaism and ...
... religion . Dislocation , war , and foreign rule forced every variety of Jewish commu- nity to rebuild its ancient ... religious thought existed . Insights gained from studies of religion in the modern as well as the ancient period ...
... religion is hard to achieve , because reli- gion takes such different forms in different societies . The reli- gion of any society embodies its ultimate assumptions , but not every society expresses its religious beliefs in the same ...
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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 |