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050 00 $aBM535$b.D27 2010
082 00 $a261.2/6$222
100 1 $aDacy, Marianne.
245 14 $aThe separation of early Christianity from Judaism /$cMarianne Dacy.
260 $aAmherst, N.Y. :$bCambria Press,$cc2010.
300 $axiv, 356 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [315]-347) and index.
520 $aThere exists a plethora of literature on the relationship between early Christianity and Judaism, but these studies focus on one or two issues. In the tradition of James Parkes, whose1930 study of the break between the Church and the Synagogue remains a classic, this book takes on the larger relationship and shows how the separation evolved over time. Rather than pinpointing a specific date for the break, the study broadens the context and looks at the wider issues, showing that separation took several centuries. In the wake of the Holocaust and in seeking to understand how the relationship between Judaism and Christianity deteriorated over the course of two millennia, this book examines the origins of the conflict. In seeking to cast new light on the separation of early Christianity from Judaism, a number of documented areas that are often treated separately by authors have been examined in order to uncover evidence for the separation. The book covers an enormous amount of material on the relationship between early Christianity and Judaism, but presents this in a highly accessible manner, clearly showing how the separation between the two emerged over time. It also reveals the ways they continued to be related. The author pinpoints two pervasive issues that impelled the separation: the relationship of the early church to Jewish law and the increasing divinization of Jesus.
650 0 $aJudaism$xRelations$xChristianity$xHistory.
650 0 $aChristianity and other religions$xJudaism$xHistory.