Trading Places - The Intersecting Histories of Judaism and Christianity

Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner

ISBN 10: 0829811419 / ISBN 13: 9780829811414

Published by The Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, OH, 1996

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Inked name on flyleaf, minor edge wear, 1 chapter has extensive pencil underlining.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Trading Places - The Intersecting Histories of Judaism and Christianity
• Publisher: The Pilgrim Press, Cleveland, OH
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0829811419
• ISBN 13: 9780829811414
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Book Type: Book
• Seller catalogs:
  • Religion

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Synopsis

Trading Places turns on its head the usual scholarly consensus that early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism run parallel. These two great traditions, argue Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, intersected and ultimately traded places during the first four centuries of the Common Era. In this, the authors offer a bold new way of interpreting Western religious history.
Politically, for example, the private and communal Christianity became public and dominant after the conversion of Constantine, whereas the formerly public and political Rabbinic Judaism became private and communal.
But Christianity and Judaism traded places in other ways, such as their values, their teleology, and their understandings of history. Ultimately Judaism found success in making the best of what it could not change, Chilton and Neusner assert, whereas Christianity entered public discourse in a bid to transform the world.
Trading Places in accompanied by a sourcebook so that the critical passages from primary sources within each tradition can be scrutinized.

About the Author

Jacob Neusner is distinguished research professor at the University of South Florida and professor of religion at Bard College.