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Tolerance, Intolerance, and Recognition in Early Christianity and Early Judaism [electronic resource].

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Early Christianity in the Roman World SerPublication details: Amsterdam : Amsterdam University Press, 2021.Description: 1 online resource (316 p.)ISBN:
  • 9789048535125
  • 9048535123
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Tolerance, Intolerance, and Recognition in Early Christianity and Early JudaismDDC classification:
  • 201.5 23
LOC classification:
  • BL410
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Outi Lehtipuu and Michael Labahn -- I. Conditions of Tolerance -- 1. From Conflict to Recognition -- Rethinking a Scholarly Paradigm in the Study of Christian Origins -- Ismo Dunderberg -- 2. Mutable Ethnicity in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Intertwined Acts of Tolerance and Intolerance -- Carmen Palmer -- 3. Der geliebte "Feind" -- Wahrnehmung des Anderen in Jesu Gebot der Feindesliebe und ihre Rezeption im Dokument Q -- ein Beispiel antiker "Toleranz" und "Anerkennung"? -- Michael Labahn
II. Jewish-Christian Relations between Tolerance and Intolerance -- 4. Was Paul Tolerant? -- An Assessment of William S. Campbell's and J. Brian Tucker's "Particularistic" Paul -- Nina Nikki -- 5. Since When Were Martyrs Jewish? -- Apologies for the Maccabees' Martyrdom and Making of Religious Difference -- Anna-Liisa Rafael -- 6. Hiding One's Tolerance -- Cyril of Alexandria's Use of Philo -- Sami Yli-Karjanmaa -- 7. Rabbinic Reflections on Divine-Human Interactions -- Speaking in Parables on the Miracle of Pregnancy and Birth -- Galit Hasan-Rokem and Israel J. Yuval
III. Tolerance and Questions of Persecution, Gender, and Ecology -- 8. Were the Early Christians Really Persecuted? -- Paul Middleton -- 9. "No Male and Female" -- Women and the Rhetoric of Recognition in Early Christianity -- Outi Lehtipuu -- 10. Learning from "Others" -- Reading Two Samaritan Stories in the Gospel of Luke from an Ecological Perspective -- Elizabeth V. Dowling -- Epilogue -- Sites of Toleration -- Amy-Jill Levine -- Index of Ancient Sources
Summary: This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of late antiquity. At the same time, it acknowledges that examples of tolerance are significantly fewer in ancient sources than examples of intolerance and are often limited to insiders, while outsiders often met with contempt, or even outright violence. The essays take both perspectives seriously by analysing the complexity pertaining to these encounters. Religious concerns, ethnicity, gender and other social factors central to identity formation were often intertwined and they yielded different ways of drawing the limits of tolerance and intolerance. This book enhances our understanding of the formative centuries of Jewish and Christian religious traditions. It also brings the results of historical inquiry into dialogue with present-day questions of religious tolerance.
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Cover -- Table of Contents -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Outi Lehtipuu and Michael Labahn -- I. Conditions of Tolerance -- 1. From Conflict to Recognition -- Rethinking a Scholarly Paradigm in the Study of Christian Origins -- Ismo Dunderberg -- 2. Mutable Ethnicity in the Dead Sea Scrolls -- Intertwined Acts of Tolerance and Intolerance -- Carmen Palmer -- 3. Der geliebte "Feind" -- Wahrnehmung des Anderen in Jesu Gebot der Feindesliebe und ihre Rezeption im Dokument Q -- ein Beispiel antiker "Toleranz" und "Anerkennung"? -- Michael Labahn

II. Jewish-Christian Relations between Tolerance and Intolerance -- 4. Was Paul Tolerant? -- An Assessment of William S. Campbell's and J. Brian Tucker's "Particularistic" Paul -- Nina Nikki -- 5. Since When Were Martyrs Jewish? -- Apologies for the Maccabees' Martyrdom and Making of Religious Difference -- Anna-Liisa Rafael -- 6. Hiding One's Tolerance -- Cyril of Alexandria's Use of Philo -- Sami Yli-Karjanmaa -- 7. Rabbinic Reflections on Divine-Human Interactions -- Speaking in Parables on the Miracle of Pregnancy and Birth -- Galit Hasan-Rokem and Israel J. Yuval

III. Tolerance and Questions of Persecution, Gender, and Ecology -- 8. Were the Early Christians Really Persecuted? -- Paul Middleton -- 9. "No Male and Female" -- Women and the Rhetoric of Recognition in Early Christianity -- Outi Lehtipuu -- 10. Learning from "Others" -- Reading Two Samaritan Stories in the Gospel of Luke from an Ecological Perspective -- Elizabeth V. Dowling -- Epilogue -- Sites of Toleration -- Amy-Jill Levine -- Index of Ancient Sources

This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of late antiquity. At the same time, it acknowledges that examples of tolerance are significantly fewer in ancient sources than examples of intolerance and are often limited to insiders, while outsiders often met with contempt, or even outright violence. The essays take both perspectives seriously by analysing the complexity pertaining to these encounters. Religious concerns, ethnicity, gender and other social factors central to identity formation were often intertwined and they yielded different ways of drawing the limits of tolerance and intolerance. This book enhances our understanding of the formative centuries of Jewish and Christian religious traditions. It also brings the results of historical inquiry into dialogue with present-day questions of religious tolerance.

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