The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other
Peter Schäfer
Abstract
In late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape its own identity. This book reveals the crucial ways in which various Jewish heresies, including Christianity, affected the development of rabbinic Judaism. The book even shows that some of the ideas that the rabbis appropriated from Christianity were actually reappropriated Jewish ideas. The res ... More
Keywords: late antiquity, Christianity, rabbinic Judaism, orthodoxy, heresy, Judaism
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2012 | Print ISBN-13: 9780691153902 |
| Published to Princeton Scholarship Online: October 2017 | DOI:10.23943/princeton/9780691153902.001.0001 |
