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Making myths

Making myths

Jews in early Christian identity formation

By Leonard Victor Rutgers

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Publish Date

2009

Publisher

Peeters

Language

eng

Pages

151

Description:

Exploring Jewish-Christian interaction in Late Antiquity in the form of three case studies, Leonard Rutgers shows that early Christian ideas about Jews and Judaism not only played a determining role in the ideologies that shaped early Christian identity formation, they also had a tendency to spill over into the real world. Therefore such ideas deeply influenced the dynamics of Jewish-Christian relations during a period that saw the curtailing of Jewish civil rights and liberties precisely as a result of early Christian exegetical activity.