Language:
English
Year of publication:
1986
Titel der Quelle:
Early Judaism and Its Modern Interpreters
Angaben zur Quelle:
(1986) 99-116
Keywords:
Isaac, Jules,
;
Ruether, Rosemary Radford
;
Simon, Marcel,
;
Stern, Menahem
;
Christianity and antisemitism History To 1500
;
Jews in the New Testament
;
Antisemitism Historiography
;
Paganism Historiography
;
Paganism History
;
Paganism Relations
;
Judaism
;
Jews History Empire, 30 B.C.-284 A.D.
;
Jews History Greco-Roman period, 332 B.C.-640 A.D.
Abstract:
The first part of the article, "Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism in early Christianity; the debate since World War II", focuses on Jules Isaac’s work on the centrality of anti-Judaism in early Christianity, a view reinforced by Rosemary Ruether. Their opponents deny that the New Testament is antisemitic, and that Christian antisemitism was responsible for modern antisemitism. The Isaac-Ruether approach has been modified by the findings of Marcel Simon on the existing Church-Synagogue struggle as late as the 4th century, and by a new reading of Paul. Part two, "Jews and Judaism in pagan perspective", examines the thesis of a pagan influence on anti-Judaism (in Rome and in Egypt), citing Menahem Stern’s collection of ancient texts which show that the Hellenistic and Roman worlds were divided between admiration for Judaism and fear of its militant nationalism and success in proselytizing.
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