Negotiating Identities

Karin Hedner Zetterholm; Anders Runesson; Cecilia Wassén; Magnus Zetterholm

doi:10.5771/9781978714748

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Covering the period from 200 BCE to 600 CE, this book describes important aspects of identity formation processes within early Judaism and Christianity, and shows how negotiations involving issues of ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building contributed to the forming of group identities. Over time, some of these Jewish group identities evolved into non-Jewish Christian identities, others into a rabbinic Jewish identity, while yet others remained somewhere in between. The contributors to this volume trace these developments in archaeological remains as well as in texts from the Qumran movement, the New Testament and the reception of Paul’s writings, rabbinic literature, and apocryphal and pseudepigraphical writings, such as the Book of Dreams and the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies. The long timespan covered in the volume together with the combined expertise of scholars from various fields make this book a unique contribution to research on group identity, Jewish and Christian identity formation, the Partings-of-the-ways between Judaism and Christianity, and interactions between Jews and Christians.

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Copyright year: 2022
ISBN-Print: 978-1-9787-1473-1
ISBN-Online: 978-1-9787-1474-8
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 612
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. Abbreviations No access
1. Summary of the Contributions No access
2. Notes No access
1. The Pseudepigrapha No access
2. The Dead Sea Scrolls No access
3. Common Judaism? No access
4. The Similitudes of Enoch No access
5. Diaspora Judaism No access
6. The Case of 3 Baruch No access
7. Paul’s Jewish Context No access
8. Notes No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Reading the Rule of the Congregation and the Rule of Blessing as Competition in the Hasmonean Context No access
  3. Reading the Damascus Document’s “Closing of the Door” as Competition No access
  4. Conclusions No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. What Was the Qumran Movement and the YAḤAD? No access
  2. Common Meals and Greco-Roman Associations No access
  3. The Character of Meals in the Qumran Association No access
  4. Social Interaction with Outsiders No access
  5. The Social Capital of Participation in Common Meals No access
  6. Conclusion No access
  7. Notes No access
3. 1. Introduction to a Line of Inquiry No access
  2. 1. Narrative Overview of the Book of Dreams No access
  3. 1. 1. Job No access
      2. Jonah No access
      3. Book of Dreams No access
  4. Why Does Enoch Weep? No access
  5. Notes No access
4. 1. 1. 1. Frame of Reference No access
      2. Resonances No access
      3. Evaluation No access
    2. 1. Frame of Reference No access
      2. Resonances No access
      3. Evaluation No access
    3. 1. Frame of Reference No access
      2. Resonances No access
      3. Evaluation No access
    4. 1. Frame of Reference No access
      2. Resonances No access
      3. Evaluation No access
    5. Metaphors and Discourse No access
    6. The End of a Metaphor? No access
    7. 1. Frame of Reference No access
      2. Resonances No access
      3. Evaluation No access
  2. Notes No access
5. 1. 1. What to Call the Communities Connected with the Dead Sea Scrolls? No access
    2. Polemics and Cultural Competition No access
    3. Community Meals in the Dead Sea Scrolls No access
    4. Social Differentiation of “Christianity” from “Judaism” No access
    5. The Salvation of the Gentiles No access
  2. Concluding Remarks No access
  3. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. Methodology No access
  2. 1. Group Categorization at the Narrative and Compositional Settings of the Gospel of Mark No access
    2. Is Jesus’s Proclamation Good News for the Nations in Mark? No access
    3. Who Gets into the Future, Imminent Kingdom of God in the Gospel of Mark? No access
  3. Conclusion No access
  4. Notes No access
2. 1. Barbarians and Gentiles No access
  2. Gentile Sinners No access
  3. The Evidence of the Christ-Groups No access
  4. Rules and Exceptions No access
  5. Notes No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Hypodescent in the United States No access
  3. Hyperdescent in Brazil No access
  4. Jubilees No access
  5. Paul No access
  6. How Is the Unbelieving Partner Holy? No access
  7. Conclusion No access
  8. Notes No access
4. 1. 1. Later Pauline Letters No access
    2. The Acts of the Apostles No access
    3. The Epistle of Barnabas No access
    4. Ignatius of Antioch No access
    5. Justin Martyr No access
  2. Concluding Thoughts No access
  3. Notes No access
5. 1. Why Do We Like What We Like, and Not What We Don’t? No access
  2. 1. John Van Maaren, “Gentile Alterity and Ethnic Solidarity: The Role of Group Categorization in Understanding Mark as Jewish Literature” No access
    2. Matthew V. Novenson, “Gentile Sinners: A Brief History of an Ancient Stereotype” No access
    3. Matthew Thiessen, “Hypodescent in Two Ancient Jewish Writers: Jubilees and Paul on Mixed Marriages” No access
    4. Karin Neutel, “Circumcision in Early Christian Sources: Identifying Difference after Paul” No access
  3. In Summary No access
  4. Notes No access
1. 1. 1. The Ancient Common Core—Furnishings and Liturgical Performance in the Late Second Temple Period No access
    2. 1. The Organization of the Interior Space of the Synagogue from the Mid-Fourth Century until the Seventh Century No access
  2. Part B: The Reciprocal Influence between the Synagogue and the Church No access
  3. Notes No access
2. 1. Introduction No access
  2. The Problem of Method: History between Texts and Archaeology No access
  3. 1. Texts No access
    2. Archaeology No access
    3. Summary of the Data No access
  4. Constructing Capernaum’s Institutional and Socioreligious Setting No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. INTRODUCTION No access
  2. Jews, Baptized Gentiles, and Pagans in the Homilies No access
  3. Traits Indicating a Jewish Milieu No access
  4. The Homilies and Ancient Associations No access
  5. Conclusion No access
  6. Notes No access
4. 1. Introduction: Theological Discourse and Its Methodological Pitfalls No access
  2. Institutional Matrices and the Question of Origins No access
  3. 1. The Mid-First Century No access
    2. The Late First and Second Centuries No access
    3. The Third to Fifth Centuries No access
  4. Conclusion: Between Opportunity and Choice No access
  5. Notes No access
5. 1. Notes No access
1. 1. Introduction No access
  2. 1. Initial Identifications of Stepped Pools with Jewish Ritual Baths No access
    2. Challenges to the Identification of Stepped Pools with Jewish Ritual Bathing No access
    3. 1. They Are Pools No access
      2. They Are Immersion Pools No access
      3. They Are Jewish Immersion Pools No access
      4. They Are Jewish Ritual Immersion Pools No access
  3. 1. Initial Identifications of Chalk Vessels with Jewish Purity Practices No access
    2. Challenges to the Identification of Chalk Vessels with Jewish Purity Practices No access
    3. 1. Chalk Vessels Are a Distinctly Jewish Phenomenon—Due to the Pentateuch No access
      2. The Weaknesses of the Alternative Hypotheses No access
  4. Concluding Remarks No access
  5. Notes No access
2. 1. Laws for Jews and Laws for Gentiles from the Bible to Late Antiquity No access
  2. Gentile Purity from the Bible to Late Antiquity No access
  3. Laws for Jews and Laws for Gentiles in the Acts of the Apostles No access
  4. Gentile Purity in the Early Church No access
  5. Gentile Law in and around the Clementine Homilies No access
  6. Notes No access
3. 1. Introduction No access
  2. Birkat haminim No access
  3. Nôṣərîm in Rabbinic Literature No access
  4. The Term nôṣərî in the Babylonian Talmud: A Suggestion No access
  5. Conclusions No access
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4. 1. Jacob’s Voice / Paul Celan No access
  2. Esau as the Internal Other? No access
  3. Conclusions No access
  4. Notes No access
5. 1. 1. Self-Definition and Othering No access
    2. Results and Possibilities No access
  2. Concluding Remarks No access
  3. Notes No access
1. Notes No access
Bibliography No access Pages 519 - 576
Index of Modern Authors No access Pages 577 - 586
Subject Index No access Pages 587 - 590
Index of Ancient Sources No access Pages 591 - 606
About the Contributors No access Pages 607 - 612