Jews and Christians in the First and Second Centuries : : the Interbellum 70-132 CE / / edited by Joshua Schwartz and Peter J. Tomson.

• TeilnehmendeR: Schwartz, Joshua,; Tomson, Peter J.,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, The Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Compendia Rerum Iudaicarum ad Novum Testamentum 15.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (560 pages) :; illustrations, maps.
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

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.

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Archaeology -- Interbellum Judea 70–132 ce: An Archaeological Perspective / Boaz Zissu -- Adapted Roman Rituals in Second Century ce Jewish Houses / Eyal Baruch -- Lod of the Yavne Period: How a City was Cheated out of Its Period / Joshua Schwartz -- The Roman Perspective -- Position and Authority of the Provincial Legate and the Financial Procurator in Judaea, 70–136 ad / Werner Eck -- Judaea after 70: Delegation of Authority by Rome? / Benjamin Isaac -- Jews and Christians under Trajan and the Date of Ignatius’ Martyrdom / Marco Rizzi -- ‘He Will Bear the Name of a Sea’: Jewish Expectations of Hadrian and His Imperial Strategy before 130 ce / Francesco Ziosi -- The Liminal Time from the Temple’s Destruction until Yavne, 70–85/90 ce / Ben-Zion Rosenfeld -- Historiography -- 70 ce or 135 ce – Where was the Watershed? Ancient and Modern Perspectives / David Levine -- Uncertain Symbol: The Representation of Yavne in the Talmud Yerushalmi / Catherine Hezser -- Transmission and Evolution of the Story of R. Gamliel’s Deposition / Moshe Simon-Shoshan -- Developments during the Interbellum -- Were the Noahide Commandments Formulated at Yavne? Tosefta Avoda Zara 8:4–9 in Cultural and Historical Context / Christine Hayes -- The Historicity of Yavnean Traditions: The Case of Jewish Liturgy / Lee I. Levine -- Jewish Revolts and Jewish-Christian Relations / James Carleton Paget -- The Ways That Parted: Jews, Christians, and Jewish-Christians, circa 100–150 ce / Shaye J.D. Cohen -- Christian Gnosticism and Judaism in the First Decades of the Second Century / Christoph Markschies -- The Import of Literary Sources -- Josephus on the Temple from a Post-70 Perspective / Jan Willem van Henten -- Matthew and Yavne: Religious Authority in the Making? / Eric Ottenheijm -- Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum: a Para-Rabbinic Jewish Source Close to the Yavne Period / Zeʾev Safrai -- Josephus, Luke-Acts, and Politics in Rome and Judaea by 100 ce / Peter J. Tomson.