Conflict Between Christianity And Judaism: A Contribution to the History of the Jews in the Fourth Century
Conflict Between Christianity And Judaism: A Contribution to the History of the Jews in the Fourth Century
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Paperback / softback
£26.99
Publisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 9780856685729
Number of Pages: 134
Published: 01/09/1993
The Fourth Century was crucial to both the Christian Church and Judaism: it saw the formulation of Christian doctrine and the completion of the Palestinian Talmud. Christianity was now the favoured religion of the Roman Empire, but Judaism remained a vital force. In this meticulously researched study Leopold Lucas explores the arguments and attitudes of the Church Fathers from Basil to Augustine. A picture emerges of a strenuous intellectual struggle between Christians and Jews. Thanks to their political ascendancy, the Christians emerged victorious. But the same pressures that excluded the Jews from authority in the Christian State resulted in their preservation as a necessary and hence tolerated minority faith in Mediaeval Europe.
The Jews and the Church fathers of the fourth century - Basil, Athanasius, John Chrysostom, Jerome, Ambrose, Augustine; the motives and course of the struggle - Christology, the ascetic ideal, Jewish propaganda, Jewish hostility towards Christians, the Christian state; the preservation of Judaism - religious aspects, political aspects. Bibliography: Roman legal texts; Greek and Latin patristic texts; Talmudic texts; Midrashic texts; other Judaica; Syriac texts; Arabic texts; bibliography of modern texts.