Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries: The Interbellum 70‒132 CE

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This volume discusses crucial aspects of the period between the two revolts against Rome in Judaea that saw the rise of rabbinic Judaism and of the separation between Judaism and Christianity. Most contributors no longer support the ‘maximalist’ claim that around 100 CE, a powerful rabbinic regime was already in place. Rather, the evidence points to the appearance of the rabbinic movement as a group with a regional power base and with limited influence. The period is best seen as one of transition from the multiform Judaism revolving around the Second Temple in Jerusalem to a Judaism that was organized around synagogue, Tora, and sages and that parted ways with Christianity.
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2018
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Introduction
part 1 Archaeology
Chapter 1 Interbellum Judea 70–132 ce: An Archaeological Perspective
Chapter 2 Adapted Roman Rituals in Second Century ce Jewish Houses
Chapter 3 Lod of the Yavne Period: How a City was Cheated out of Its Period
part 2 The Roman Perspective
Chapter 4 Position and Authority of the Provincial Legate and the Financial Procurator in Judaea, 70–136 ad
Chapter 5 Judaea after 70: Delegation of Authority by Rome?
Chapter 6 Jews and Christians under Trajan and the Date of Ignatius’ Martyrdom
Chapter 7 ‘He Will Bear the Name of a Sea’: Jewish Expectations of Hadrian and His Imperial Strategy before 130 ce
Chapter 8 The Liminal Time from the Temple’s Destruction until Yavne, 70–85/90 ce
part 3 Historiography
Chapter 9 70 ce or 135 ce – Where was the Watershed? Ancient and Modern Perspectives
Chapter 10 Uncertain Symbol: The Representation of Yavne in the Talmud Yerushalmi
Chapter 11 Transmission and Evolution of the Story of R. Gamliel’s Deposition
part 4 Developments during the Interbellum
Chapter 12 Were the Noahide Commandments Formulated at Yavne? Tosefta Avoda Zara 8:4–9 in Cultural and Historical Context
Chapter 13 The Historicity of Yavnean Traditions: The Case of Jewish Liturgy
Chapter 14 Jewish Revolts and Jewish-Christian Relations
Chapter 15 The Ways That Parted: Jews, Christians, and Jewish-Christians, ca. 100–150 ce
Chapter 16 Christian Gnosticism and Judaism in the First Decades of the Second Century
part 5 The Import of Literary Sources
Chapter 17 Josephus on the Temple from a Post-70 Perspective
Chapter 18 Matthew and Yavne: Religious Authority in the Making?
Chapter 19 Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: a Para-Rabbinic Jewish Source Close to the Yavne Period
Chapter 20 Josephus, Luke-Acts, and Politics in Rome and Judaea by 100 ce
Joshua Schwartz is Professor of Historical Geography of Ancient Israel and directs the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archaeology at Bar-Ilan University, Israel.

Peter J. Tomson retired as Professor of New Testament and Jewish Studies at the Faculty of Protestant Theology in Brussels and is currently Guest Professor at KU Leuven, Belgium.
All those interested in Judaism and Christianity in the Roman period and in the early relations between both communities.
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