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The origins of anti-semitism : attitudes toward Judaism in pagan and Christian antiquity / John G. Gager.
- Title
- The origins of anti-semitism : attitudes toward Judaism in pagan and Christian antiquity / John G. Gager.
- Author
- Gager, John G.
- Publication
- New York : Oxford University Press, 1983.
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- Description
- viii, 312 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- Examines the presence of anti-Semitism among the Greeks, Romans, and early Christians and argues that anti-Semitism was rare in the ancient world.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-306) and indexes.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Anti-Semitism and anti-Judaism : the modern debate. From Jules Isaac to Rosemary Ruether ; Consensus and crisis in the response to Ruether -- Judaism and Judaizing among Gentiles : attractions and reactions. The Greek and Roman encounter with Judaism : philosophy and politics ; The later Roman encounter with Judaism : philosophy and politics ; The later Roman encounter with Judaism : the politics of sympathy and conversion ; Against the stream : sympathy for Judaism in imperial Rome ; Roman policy toward Judaism and the rise of Christianity ; The dialogue of paganism with Judaism in late antiquity : philosophers and magicians -- Christianity, Israel, and the Torah. Judaizing and anti-Judaism in the Christian tradition ; Controversies and debates between Jews and Christians ; Anti-Judaism in the theological response to Marcion and the Christian Gnostics ; Paul's friends and enemies -- The case of Paul. On reinventing Paul ; Has Christ abrogated the Torah? Has God rejected his people? -- What circumstances gave rise to Paul's extended discussion of Israel, the Torah, and the Gentiles? -- What was the heart of Paul's argument with the Jews, his kinsmen by race?
- ISBN
- 0195036077 (pbk) :
- 0195033167
- LCCN
- gb^86003100^
- OCLC
- 9112202
- SCSB-10323348
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library