Tolerance, Intolerance, and Recognition in Early Christianity and Early Judaism

Published by Amsterdam University Press 2021

Tolerance, Intolerance, and Recognition in Early Christianity and Early Judaism

Edited by: Outi Lehtipuu and Michael Labahn

Volume 2 in the series Early Christianity in the Roman World

https://doi.org/10.1515/9789048535125

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About this book

This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of late antiquity. At the same time, it acknowledges that examples of tolerance are significantly fewer in ancient sources than examples of intolerance and are often limited to insiders, while outsiders often met with contempt, or even outright violence. The essays take both perspectives seriously by analysing the complexity pertaining to these encounters. Religious concerns, ethnicity, gender and other social factors central to identity formation were often intertwined and they yielded different ways of drawing the limits of tolerance and intolerance. This book enhances our understanding of the formative centuries of Jewish and Christian religious traditions. It also brings the results of historical inquiry into dialogue with present-day questions of religious tolerance.

The book contains contributions by Ismo Dunderberg, Carmen Palmer, Michael Labahn, Nina Nikki, Anna-Liisa Rafael, Sami Yli-Karjanmaa, Galit Hasan-Rokem & Israel Yuval, Paul Middleton, Outi Lehtipuu, Elizabeth Dowling, and Amy-Jill Levine.

Author / Editor information

Lehtipuu Outi :

Outi Lehtipuu is Senior Lecturer at the Department of Biblical Studies at the University of Helsinki. Her recent publications include Debates over the Resurrection of the Dead: Constructing Early Christian Identity (2015).Labahn Michael :

Michael Labahn is außerplanmäßiger Professor at Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg. He is co-editor with Lehtipuu of the volume People under Power: Early Jewish and Christian Responses to the Roman Empire (AUP 2015).

Reviews

''This superb volume will be of interest not only to those wishing to learn how tolerance and recognition can be understood and analyzed in ancient contexts, but also to those who seek to use the evidence of the ancient world to think and speak about similar concerns in the present day''.
-Jeffrey Cross, Church History Journal , June 2023

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	1
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	5
Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	7
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
Contributors Outi Lehtipuu and Michael Labahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	9
I Conditions of Tolerance
1. From Conflict to Recognition Ismo Dunderberg Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
2. Mutable Ethnicity in the Dead Sea Scrolls Carmen Palmer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	47
3. Der geliebte „Feind“ Michael Labahn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
II Jewish–Christian Relations between Tolerance and Intolerance
4. Was Paul Tolerant? Nina Nikki Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	113
5. Since When Were Martyrs Jewish? Anna Rafael Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	139
6. Hiding One’s Tolerance Sami Karjanmaa Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
7. Rabbinic Reflections on Divine– Human Interactions Galit Rokem and Israel Yuval Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
III Tolerance and Questions of Persecution, Gender, and Ecology
8. Were the Early Christians Really Persecuted? Paul Middleton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
9. “No Male and Female” Outi Lehtipuu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	251
10. Learning from “Others” Elizabeth Dowling Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	273
Epilogue Amy Levine Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	291
Index of Ancient Sources Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	305

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Language: English
Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 314
Keywords: early Judaism; early Christianity; tolerance; intolerance; religious recognition

eBook

Published: June 25, 2021
ISBN: 9789048535125