The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other
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The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other

The Jewish Jesus: How Judaism and Christianity Shaped Each Other

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Peter Schaefer (Author)  

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In late antiquity, as Christianity emerged from Judaism, it was not only the new religion that was being influenced by the old. The rise and revolutionary challenge of Christianity also had a profound influence on rabbinic Judaism, which was itself just emerging and, like Christianity, trying to shape its own identity. In The Jewish Jesus, Peter Schafer reveals the crucial ways in which various Jewish heresies, including Christianity, affected the development of rabbinic Judaism. He even shows that some of the ideas that the rabbis appropriated from Christianity were actually reappropriated Jewish ideas. The result is a demonstration of the deep mutual influence between the sister religions, one that calls into question hard and fast distinctions between orthodoxy and heresy, and even Judaism and Christianity, during the first centuries CE. 5 halftones. 1 table.
Peter Schafer is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of religion at Princeton University, where he directs the Program in Judaic Studies. His books include The Origins of Jewish Mysticism and Jesus in the Talmud (both Princeton). He received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2007.
  • Contributor: Peter Schaefer
  • Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • ISBN13: 9780691160955
  • Number of Pages: 368
  • Packaged Dimensions: 140x216mm
  • Packaged Weight: 425
  • Format: Paperback
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Release Date: 2014-03-21
  • Binding: Paperback / softback
  • Biography: Peter Schafer is the Ronald O. Perelman Professor of Jewish Studies and professor of religion at Princeton University, where he directs the Program in Judaic Studies. His books include The Origins of Jewish Mysticism and Jesus in the Talmud (both Princeton). He received a Distinguished Achievement Award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in 2007.

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