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Reshaping identities in Late Antique Syria-Mesopotamia : Christian and Jewish hermeneutics and narrative strategies

Title
Reshaping identities in Late Antique Syria-Mesopotamia : Christian and Jewish hermeneutics and narrative strategies / by Aryeh Kofsky, Serge Ruzer ; in collaboration with Reuven Kiperwasser.
Author
Kofsky, Arieh
Publication
  • Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press LLC, 2016.
  • ©2016

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Additional Authors
  • Ruzer, Serge
  • Kipervasser, Reuven
Description
vii, 266 pages; 24 cm.
Summary
This volume presents case studies of the phenomena that contributed to group identity in Late Antique Syria-Mesopotamia, in particular traditions reflecting interactions between Judaism and Christianity, among various Christian groups, and among other religious traditions of late antiquity (such as Zoroastrianism or 'paganism'). By studying Christian, Jewish and other sources that deal with the establishment, modification and deletion of boundaries, the authors seek to create a frame of reference that will in turn explain and contextualise the existing evidence concerning communication and interaction between highly diverse groups in Late Antiquity.
Series Statement
Judaism in context ; 19
Uniform Title
Judaism in context ; 19.
Subject
  • To 1500
  • Syriac Christians > History > To 1500
  • Judaism > Relations > Christianity
  • Christianity and other religions > Judaism
  • Hermeneutics > Religious aspects > Christianity
  • Hermeneutics > Religious aspects > Judaism
  • Christianity
  • Interfaith relations
  • Judaism
  • Syriac Christians
  • Christentum
  • Judentum
  • Gruppenidentität
  • Spätantike
  • Syrien
  • Mesopotamien
Genre/Form
History.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Theodore of Mopsuestia and the Greek-Syriac divide of Syrian Christianity -- Chapter one: Transformed Christology in response to crises -- Chapter two: Progressive revelation and human development in Christ -- Chapter three: Anthropology and soteriology -- Chapter four: On Jews and Judaism -- Syriac Christians and Jews in Syro-Mesopotamian cultural setting -- Chapter five: Syriac and rabbinic narratives on Zoroastrian oral culture : the case of a Persian convert -- Chapter six: Broader cultural patterns in Jewish and Christian discourse -- Chapter seven: Competition for sacred space : Bar Sauma's vita and rabbinic traditions.
ISBN
  • 9781463205904
  • 1463205902
LCCN
  • 2016017351
  • 40026327372
OCLC
  • ocn948632454
  • 948632454
  • SCSB-9193408
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library