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JEWS AND CHRISTIANS - PARTING WAYS IN THE FIRST...

The present volume is based on a conference held in October 2019 at the Faculty of Theology of
Humboldt University Berlin as part of a common project of the Australian Catholic University 
the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and the Humboldt University Berlin. The aim is to discuss
the relationships of Jews and Christians in the first two centuries CE against the background
of recent debates which have called into question the image of parting ways for a description
of the relationships of Judaism and Christianity in antiquity. One objection raised against
this metaphor is that it accentuates differences at the expense of commonalities. Another
critique is that this image looks from a later perspective at historical developments which can
hardly be grasped with such a metaphor. It is more likely that distinctions between Jews 
Christians  Jewish Christians  Christian Jews etc. are more blurred than the image of parting
ways allows. In light of these considerations the contributions in this volume discuss the
cogency of the parting of the ways-model with a look at prominent early Christian writers and
places and suggest more appropriate metaphors to describe the relationships of Jews and
Christians in the early period.

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