TY - BOOK ID - 77961752 TI - The Christian schism in Jewish history and Jewish memory PY - 2016 SN - 9781107120471 1107120470 9781316341490 9781107546448 1107546443 1316667197 1316667049 1316667340 1316667499 1316667944 1316341496 131666614X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Judaism KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Jews KW - 296*82 KW - 281.2 KW - Identity, Jewish KW - Jewish identity KW - Jewishness KW - Jewish law KW - Jewish nationalism KW - Brotherhood Week KW - 281.2 Apostolische Kerk. Judeo-christianisme:--tot einde 1ste eeuw KW - Apostolische Kerk. Judeo-christianisme:--tot einde 1ste eeuw KW - 296*82 Dialoog joden - christenen KW - Dialoog joden - christenen KW - Relations KW - Christianity. KW - Judaism. KW - Identity. KW - Ethnic identity KW - Race identity KW - Legal status, laws, etc. KW - Religions KW - Semites KW - Relations&delete& KW - Christianity KW - Identity KW - Religion UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77961752 AB - How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing the birth of Christianity as a function of the Jewish past. Surveying a range of ancient evidences, he examines how the authors of Judaism's earliest surviving memories of Christianity speak to the perspectives of rabbinic observers who were conditioned by the unique circumstances of their encounters with Christianity to recognize its adherents as fellow Jews. Only upon the decline of the Church's Jewish demographic were their successors compelled to see Christianity as something other than a variation of Jewish cultural expression. The evolution of thought in the classical Jewish literary record thus offers a dynamic account of Christianity's separation from Judaism counterbalancing the abrupt schism attested in contemporary Christian texts. ER -