TY - BOOK ID - 3259272 TI - Making myths : Jews in early christian identity formation AU - Rutgers, Leonard Victor AU - Peeters PY - 2009 SN - 9789042922402 9042922400 PB - Leuven Peeters DB - UniCat KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Judaism KW - Church history KW - Christianisme KW - Judaïsme KW - Eglise KW - History. KW - Relations KW - Christianity KW - Histoire KW - Judaïsme UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3259272 AB - 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. ER -