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Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity ~ Dying for God aims to establish this model as a realistic one through close and comparative readings of contemporary Christian texts and Talmudic narratives that thematize the connections and differences between Christians and Jews as these emerged around the issue of martyrdom

Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity ~ In the Jewish world of the first century many sects competed for the name of the true Israel and the true interpreter of the Torah—the Talmud itself speaks of seventy—and the form of Judaism that was to be the seedbed of what eventually became the Christian Church was but one of these many sects

Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity ~ Dying for God aims to establish this model as a realistic one through close and comparative readings of contemporary Christian texts and Talmudic narratives that thematize the connections and differences between Christians and Jews as these emerged around the issue of martyrdom

Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism ~ Daniel Boyarin Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism The LancasterYarnton Lectures in Judaism and Other Religions for 1998 Stanford Stanford University Press forthcoming chapter 1 39 The division is always obviously a constructed one

Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity ~ Dying for God aims to establish this model as a realistic one through close and comparative readings of contemporary Christian texts and Talmudic narratives that thematize the connections and differences between Christians and Jews as these emerged around the issue of martyrdom The author argues that in the end the developing discourse of martyrology involved the circulation and exchange of cultural and religious innovations between the two communities as they moved toward sharper self

Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity ~ Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism by Brian E Daley August 2001 A colleague of mine teaches a popular introductory course on Catholic theology with the title “A Faith to Die For”

Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity ~ Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism Not long ago everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity More recently scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than that

Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity ~ As a literary analysis of the discourses of martyrdom in early Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity Dying for God is a complete success Boyarin does a masterful job of exploring and contrasting significant martyr texts from both traditions showing the various ways in which they deal with the question of whether martyrdom should be avoided accepted celebrated or even actively sought out

PDF MARTYRDOM AND THE MAKING OF CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM ~ In diametrical opposition G Bowersock in his recent Martyrdom and Rome argues that Christian martyrdom has nothing to do with Judaism or with the Palestinian cultural context of early Christianity but is entirely a Roman cultural product adapted for Christianity

Dying for God Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity ~ As a literary analysis of the discourses of martyrdom in early Rabbinic Judaism and Christianity Dying for God is a complete success