Jewish Responses to Early Christians: History and Polemics, 30-150 C.E.Fortress Press, Nov 1, 1994 - 224 pages What were Jews saying and doing about the followers of Jesus in the first two centuries? In this provocative and comprehensive study, Claudia Setzer argues persuasively that Jews saw the early followers of Jesus as Jews for some time after the Christians viewed themselves as separate from the larger Jewish communities. This book provides historical context and nuanced exegesis of texts that continue to be "trouble spots" in Jewish-Christian relations. It illuminates the diverse strands of early anti-Judaism while providing the reader with some surprises. |
Contents
| 9 | |
The Synoptic Gospels | 26 |
The Book of Acts | 44 |
The Gospel of John | 83 |
Revelation | 99 |
Josephus | 105 |
The Martyrdom of Polycarp | 110 |
The Gospel of Peter | 116 |
Major Trends | 163 |
Major Trends Detected | 165 |
TOLERANCE | 166 |
PHYSICAL ATTACKS | 168 |
VERBAL REACTIONS | 176 |
OBSERVATIONS | 182 |
NOTES | 191 |
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Popular passages
Page 9 - For I am the least of the apostles, that am not meet to be called an apostle, because I persecuted the church of God.
Page 16 - We also constantly give thanks to God for this, that when you received the word of God that you heard from us, you accepted it not as a human word but as what it really is, God's word, which is also at work in you believers.
Page 13 - I have been adrift at sea; on frequent journeys, in danger from rivers, danger from robbers, danger from my own people, danger from Gentiles, danger in the city, danger in the wilderness, danger at sea, danger from false brethren; in toil and hardship, through many a sleepless night in hunger and thirst, often without food, in cold and exposure.
Page 16 - Judea, for you suffered the same things from your own compatriots as they did from the Jews, who killed both the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove us out; they displease God and oppose everyone by hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins; but God's wrath has overtaken them at last.
Page 9 - I have more: circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew born of Hebrews; as to the law a Pharisee, as to zeal a persecutor of the church, as to righteousness under the law blameless.