• Avant-propos / Sébastien Morlet, Olivier Munnich, Bernard Pouderon
• Les dialogues aduersus Iudaeos : origine, caractéristiques, référentialité
• La source de l'argumentation de Tryphon dans le Dialogue de Justin : confrontation de deux thèses
• Le judaïsme dans le Dialogue avec Tryphon : une fiction littéraire de Justin
• Antiquité tardive
• La Controverse de Jason et Papiscus : le témoignage de l'Ad Vigilium episcopum de Iudaica incredulitate faussement attribué à Cyprien de Carthage
• Quand deux allégories débattent devant les censeurs : fonctionnement rhétorique et argumentatif de l'Altercatio Ecclesiae et Synagogae
• Polémique religieuse et dialogue aduersus Iudaeos au service de la catéchèse, l'exemple de Cyrille de Jérusalem
• L'image du judaïsme dans les dialogues aduersus ludaeos
• "Le temps du saint baptême n'est pas encore venu."
• Nouvelles considérations sur la Doctrina Jacobi
• Les dialogues aduersus Iudaeos face aux genres parallèles
• Moyen âge
• La polemica aduersus Iudaeos nell'agiografia dell'alto medioevo
• Il Dialogo contro i giudei di Nicola di Otranto tra fonti storiche e teologiche
• Les questions d'exégèse dans les dialogues contre les juifs XIIe-XIIIe siècles
• The Service of Jews in Christian-Jewish
• Disputations
• La parole de l'autre, la prise en compte des arguments de l'adversaire dans la polémique anti-juive à la fin du Moyen Âge
• Dialogues byzantins du XIVe s. entre des chrétiens et des juifs
• Epilogue
• Persistance et avatars de la forme dialoguée dans la littérature chrétienne et juive de controverse : XIVe-XVIIe siècles.

"Les dialogues aduersus Iudaeos. Permanences et mutations d'une tradition polémique. Actes du colloque international organisé les 7 et 8 décembre 2011 à l'Université de Paris-Sorbonne, édités par Sébastien Morlet, Olivier Munnich et Bernard Pouderon. Les dialogues mettant en scène des chrétiens discutant avec des juifs constituent une branche importante de la littérature chrétienne antique et médiévale. Longtemps délaissés en raison d'a priori négatifs, ces textes ont suscité un regain d'intérêt depuis quelques années. On bénéficie à présent d'éditions critiques récentes et de monographies détaillées, mais il manque encore à ce jour un ouvrage consacré exclusivement à ce groupe de textes, depuis ses origines jusqu'à l'époque moderne. Ce livre, constitué des actes du colloque organisé à Paris en décembre 2011, en offre une première étude d'ensemble. Il est consacré notamment aux aspects littéraires, historiques et doctrinaux des dialogues aduersus ludaeos."--P. [4] of cover.

• Abbreviations List of Contributors Part One: The Man and the Book
• 1. An Introduction, Isaac Kalimi
• 2. Biography and Bibliography of John T. Townsend, Isaac Kalimi Part Two: Hebrew Bible and Its Interpretation
• 3. Divine Vulnerability: Reflections on the Binding of Isaac (Genesis 22), James L. Crenshaw
• 4. Shifting Emphasis: Examples of Early and Modern Reception of the Book of Amos, Goran Eidevall
• 5. Interpreting the Writing on the Wall in Daniel 5, Anne E. Gardner Part Three: New Testament and Its Interpretation
• 6. The Jewishness of the Gospel of Mark, Lawrence M. Wills
• 7. Jesus' Work as a Healer in Light of Jewish Purity Laws, Cecilia Wassen
• 8. The IOTAomicronupsilondeltaalphaiotaomicroniota in the Gospel of John, Robert L. Brawley
• 9. Acts, the "Parting of the Ways, " and the Use of the Term "Christians", Joseph B. Tyson
• 10. Early Christian Attitudes toward 'Things Jewish' as Narrated by Textual Variants in Acts: A Case Study of the D-Textual Cluster, Eldon J. Epp Part Four: Talmudic and Midrashic Studies
• 11. Some Aspects of Interreligious Polemic in the Babylonian Talmud, Yaakov Elman
• 12. Egyptian Motifs in Late Antique Mosaics and Rabbinic Texts, Rivka Ulmer
• 13. The Binding Fragments of Midrash Tanhuma (Buber) from the Municipal Library of Trier, Andreas Lehnardt Part Five: Jewish - Christian Relationship
• 14. "We Love the God Who Loved Us First": The Second Blessing of the Shema Liturgy, Reuven Kimelman
• 15. Jewish Mysticism, Nostra Aetate, and Renewal in Judaism and Christianity, Bruce Chilton
• 16. Hanukkah and Community Identity in 1-2 Maccabees and John, Michael W. Duggan Index of Authors Index of Scripture.
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This volume is a collection of fresh essays in honor of Professor John T. Townsend. It focuses on the interpretation of the common Jewish and Christian Scripture (the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament) and on its two off-shoots (Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament), as well as on Jewish-Christian relations. The contributors, who are prominent scholars in their fields, include James L. Crenshaw, Goran Eidevall, Anne E. Gardner, Lawrence M. Wills, Cecilia Wassen, Robert L. Brawley, Joseph B. Tyson, Eldon J. Epp, Yaakov Elman, Rivka Ulmer, Andreas Lehnardt, Reuven Kimelman, Bruce Chilton, and Michael W. Duggan.
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• Introduction--
• 1. The Structure of Avot--
• 2. Avot, Wisdom, and Artistic Prose--
• 3. The Date and the Editor of Avot--
• 4. The Cultural Horizons of the Patriarchate in the Early Third Century--
• 5. Avot and the Second Sophistic--
• 6. The Graeco-Roman Literary Context for Avot--
• 7. Avot in the lgiht of Classical Roman Jursiprudence--
• 8. Avot's Chain of Transmission and Early Christian Parallels-- Conclusion.
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In third-century CE Palestine, the leading member of the rabbinic movement put together a highly popular wisdom treatise entitled Tractate Avot. Though Avot has inspired hundreds of commentaries, this book marks the first comprehensive effort to situate Avot within the context of the Graeco-Roman Near East. Following his novel interpretation of Avot, Amram Tropper relates the text to ancient Jewish literary paradigms as well as to relevant socio-political, literary, and intellectual streams of the contemporary Near East. Through comparisons to ancient wisdom literature, the Second Sophistic, Greek and Christian historiography, contemporary collections of sayings, and classical Roman jurisprudence, Tropper interprets Avot in light of the local Jewish context as well as the ambient cultural atmosphere of the contemporary Near East.
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Since a fuller range of Qumran sectarian and not clearly sectarian texts and recensions has recently become available to us, its implications for the comparative study of eschatological, apocalyptic and messianic ideas in the Dead Sea Scrolls and in the New Testament need to be explored anew. This book situates eschatological ideas in Qumran literature between biblical tradition and developments in late Second Temple Judaism and examines how the Qumran evidence on eschatology, resurrection, apocalypticism, and messianism illuminates Palestinian Jewish settings of emerging Christianity. The present study challenges previous dichotomies between realized and futuristic eschatology, wisdom and apocalypticism and provides many new insights into intra-Jewish dimensions to eschatological ideas in Palestinian Judaism and in the early Jesus-movement.
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• Introduction1. Josephus, Jerusalem, and the Martyrs of Medieval England2. Diaspora without End and the Renewal of Epic3. A Fox among Fish? Berekhiah ha-Nakdan's Translations4. Pleasures and Dangers of Conversion: Joseph and Aseneth5. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs in the Shadow of the Ten Lost Tribes Conclusion.
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Jewish and Christian authors of the High Middle Ages not infrequently came into dialogue or conflict with each other over traditions drawn from ancient writings outside of the bible. Circulating in Hebrew and Latin translations, these included the two independent versions of the Testament of Naphtali in which the patriarch has a vision of the Diaspora, a shipwreck that scatters the twelve tribes. The Christian narrative is linear and ends in salvation; the Jewish narrative is circular and pessimistic. For Ruth Nisse, this is an emblematic text that illuminates relationships between interpretation, translation, and survival.In Nisse's account, extrabiblical literature encompasses not only the historical works of Flavius Josephus but also some of the more ingenious medieval Hebrew imaginative texts, Aesop's fables and the Aeneid. The Latin epic tradition, as it happens, includes a fascinating Hebrew intervention. While Christian-Jewish relations in medieval England and Northern France are often associated with persecutions of Jews in the wake of the Crusades and Christian polemics against Judaism, the period also saw a growing interest in language study and translation in both communities. These noncanonical texts and their afterlives provided Jews and Christians alike with resources of fiction that they used to reconsider boundaries of doctrine and interpretation. Among the works that Nisse takes as exemplary of this medieval moment are the Book of Yosippon, a tenth-century Hebrew adaptation of Josephus with a wide circulation and influence in the later middle ages, and the second-century romance of Aseneth about the religious conversion of Joseph's Egyptian wife. Yosippon gave Jews a new discourse of martyrdom in its narrative of the fall of Jerusalem, and at the same time it offered access to the classical historical models being used by their Christian contemporaries. Aseneth provided its new audience of medieval monks with a way to reimagine the troubling consequences of unwilling Jewish converts.
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