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Trading places : the intersecting histories of Judaism and Christianity

Title: Trading places : the intersecting histories of Judaism and Christianity / Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner.
Author: Chilton, Bruce.
Publication: Cleveland, Ohio : Pilgrim Press, 1996.

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Additional Authors

Neusner, Jacob, 1932-2016.

Description

xxii, 268 pages; 22 cm

Summary

Trading Places turns on its head the usual scholarly consensus that early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism run parallel. These two great traditions, argue Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, intersected and ultimately traded places during the first four centuries of the Common Era. In this, the authors offer a bold new way of interpreting Western religious history.
Politically, for example, the private and communal Christianity became public and dominant after the conversion of Constantine, whereas the formerly public and political Rabbinic Judaism became private and communal.
But Christianity and Judaism traded places in other ways, such as their values, their teleology, and their understandings of history. Ultimately Judaism found success in making the best of what it could not change, Chilton and Neusner assert, whereas Christianity entered public discourse in a bid to transform the world. Trading Places in accompanied by a sourcebook so that the critical passages from primary sources within each tradition can be scrutinized.

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ISBN

0829811419 (alk. paper)

LCCN

96044694

OCLC

ocm35627696

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries