Verus Israel : a study of the relations between Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire, 135-425

Author(s)

• Simon, Marcel

Bibliographic Information

Verus Israel : a study of the relations between Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire, 135-425

Marcel Simon ; translated from the French, H. McKeating

（The Littman library of Jewish civilization）

Published for the Littman Library by Oxford University Press, 1986

Other Title

Verus Israel

Uniform Title

Verus Israel

Note

Translation of: Verus Israel

Bibliography: p. [419]-432

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Marcel Simon's classic study examines Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire from the second Jewish War (132-5 CE) to the end of the Jewish Patriarchate in 425 CE. First published in French in 1948, the book overturns the then commonly held view that the Jewish and Christian communities gradually ceased to interact and that the Jews gave up proselytizing among the gentiles. On the contrary, Simon maintains that Judaism continued to make its influence felt on the world at large and to be influenced by it in turn. He analyses both the antagonisms and the attractions between the two faiths, and concludes with a discussion of the eventual disappearance of Judaism as a missionary religion. The rival community triumphed with the help of a Christian imperial authority and a doctrine well adapted to the Graeco-Roman mentality.

Table of Contents

Publisher's noteIntroduction Part 1 The Religious and Political Setting 1 The Aftermath: Palestinian Judaism 2 The Aftermath: The Diaspora 3 The Church and Israel 4 Rome, Judaism, and Christianity Part 2 The Conflict of Orthodoxies 5 Anti-Jewish Polemic, its Characteristics and Methods 6 Anti-Jewish Polemic-The Arguments Employed 7 The Christians in the Talmud 8 Christian Anti-Semitism Part 3 Contact and Assimilation 9 The Fate of Jewish Christianity10 Jewish Proselytism11 The Judaizers within the Church12 Superstititon and Magic Conclusion PostscriptBibliographySupplementary bibliographyNotesTranslations from Greek, Latin, and GermanIndex

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• NCID: BA0653905X
• ISBN:
  • 019710035X
• LCCN: 84020681
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: fre
• Place of Publication: Oxford ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xviii, 533 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : BM535
  • NDC8 : 199.02
  • DC19 : 261.2/6/09015
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Christianity and other religions -- Judaism
  • LCSH : Judaism -- Relations -- Christianity
  • LCSH : Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
  • LCSH : Judaism -- History -- Talmudic period, 10-425
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA00648777