Jewish Christianity: The Making of the Christianity-Judaism Divide (The Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library) (Anchor Bible Reference Library)

by John Collins (Author), Matt Jackson–mccabe (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2020

  $55.34

  A fresh exploration of the category Jewish Christianity, from its invention in the Enlightenment to contemporary debates
  
  In this provocative work, Matt Jackson-McCabe argues that the concept of Jewish Christianity represents an enduring legacy of Christian apologetics. Freethinkers of the English Enlightenment created the category of Jewish Christianity as a means of isolating a true and distinctly Christian religion from the Jewish culture of Jesus and the apostles. Jackson-McCabe skillfully shows how a category that began as a way to reimagine the apologetic notion of an authoritative original Christianity continues to cause problems in the contemporary study of Jewish and Christian antiquity.