Perceiving the Other in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity.

Includes bibliographies and index.

An ancient debate of disciples / Albert I. Baumgarten -- Gentiles as impure animals in the writings of early Christ followers / Matthew Thiessen -- Damned disciples : the permeability of the boundary between insiders and outsiders in Matthew and Paul / Nathan Eubank -- Creating the other : the "Jews" in the Gospel of John : past and future lines of scholarship / Tobias Nicklas -- Instant polemics : use and reuse of charges against others in early Christianity / Wolfgang Grünstäudl -- The case for tolerance in the early Christian (Pseudo-Clemintine) novel / Patricia A. Duncan -- The paradoxical similarities between the Jews and the Roman other / Katell Berthelot -- Various "others" in rabbinic literature : between Babylonia and the land of Israel / Isaiah M. Gafni -- The bodily images of Shimon Bar Kosibah in rabbinic literature / Haim Weiss -- "The best of them is like a brier" : on born 'Eruvin 101a and the Jewish-Christian dialogue in the Babylonian Talmud / Michal bar-Asher Siegal -- The complicated goy in classical rabbinic sources / Christine Hayes.

The present volume reexamines both ancient Christian and Jewish portrayals of outsiders. In what ways, both positive and negative, do ancient writers interact with and relate to those outside of their ethnicity or religious tradition? This volume devotes itself to the methodological questions surrounding the use of diverse ancient sources for the construction of the other. The goal is to shed new light on ancient interactions between different religious groups in order to describe more accurately these relationships.

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