Language:
English
Year of publication:
2023
Titel der Quelle:
Routledge Handbook on Jewish Ritual and Practice
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2023) 540-557
Keywords:
Judaism Customs and practices
;
History
;
Christianity and other religions Judaism To 500
;
History
Abstract:
In the complex “parting of the ways” between the early Jesus movement and its Jewish roots, Christianity both preserved and abandoned Jewish rituals. The multi-faceted nature of such reception appears throughout early Christian literature, but this study particularly focuses upon the Book of Acts and the Apostolic Fathers. The essay examines the early Christian reception of prayer, temple worship, Sabbath observance, liturgy and Scripture reading, ritual washing, casting of lots, almsgiving and charity, burial, laying on of hands, kashrut, fasting, shaking off of dust, circumcision, vows, and head shaving. These specific investigations within Acts and the Apostolic Fathers amply reflect both the adoption of existing Jewish rituals and the adaptation and even rejection of previous Jewish traditions.
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