TY - BOOK ID - 85721865 TI - Tertullian, on idolatry and Mishnah Avodah zarah : questioning the parting of the ways between Christians and Jews PY - 2012 SN - 1283854821 9004235485 9004234780 9789004234789 PB - Leiden: Brill, DB - UniCat KW - Idolatry. KW - Christianity and other religions KW - Judaism KW - RELIGION / Christian Life / Social Issues. KW - RELIGION / Christianity / General. KW - Brotherhood Week KW - Idols and images KW - Judaism. KW - Relations KW - Christianity. KW - Worship KW - Tertullian, KW - Mishnah. KW - Avodah zarah (Mishnah) KW - Aboda zara (Mishnah) KW - Abodah zarah (Mishnah) KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Idolatry KW - Judaism - Relations - Christianity KW - Tertullian, - approximately 160-approximately 230 - De idololatria UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:85721865 AB - This work studies and compares systematically the text of Tertullian, an African Church Father of the third century CE, on idolatry with the rabbinic Mishnah Avodah Zarah , on the same subject, dating roughly from the same period. Similarities and differences between the Jewish and Christian approaches to idolatry are examined and accounted for. The research is inscribed in the wider framework of discussions on the “parting of the ways” between Jews and Christians. It also addresses related questions such as the role of the rabbis in second and third century Judaism in the Land of Israel and in the Diaspora; relations between Jews living in those places; interactions between Jews and pagans, Christians and pagans, Jews and Christians... ER -