The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory

The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory
Author: Joshua Ezra Burns
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2016-02-11
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1316666670

How did Jews perceive the first Christians? By what means did they come to appreciate Christianity as a religion distinct from their own? In The Christian Schism in Jewish History and Jewish Memory, Professor Joshua Ezra Burns addresses those questions by describing the birth of Christianity as a function of the Jewish past. Surveying a range of ancient evidences, he examines how the authors of Judaism's earliest surviving memories of Christianity speak to the perspectives of rabbinic observers who were conditioned by the unique circumstances of their encounters with Christianity to recognize its adherents as fellow Jews. Only upon the decline of the Church's Jewish demographic were their successors compelled to see Christianity as something other than a variation of Jewish cultural expression. The evolution of thought in the classical Jewish literary record thus offers a dynamic account of Christianity's separation from Judaism counterbalancing the abrupt schism attested in contemporary Christian texts.

Memory and History in Christianity and Judaism

Memory and History in Christianity and Judaism
Author: Michael Alan Signer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2001
Genre: Religion
ISBN:

The essays in this volume reflect the effort to recognize the alteration in the intellectual and social contexts in which Jews and Christians gather for prayer, and the undermining of the conjunction between memory and ritualization.

Jesus the Jew in Christian Memory

Jesus the Jew in Christian Memory
Author: Barbara U. Meyer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2020-03-12
Genre: Bibles
ISBN: 1108498892

Shows how research and reflection on Jesus's Jewishness transforms contemporary Christian thought on memory, otherness, natality and law.

Jewish History and Jewish Memory

Jewish History and Jewish Memory
Author: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Publisher: UPNE
Total Pages: 488
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780874518719

Publication of Yosef Yerushalmi's Zakhor in 1982 inspired a generation of scholarly inquiry into historical images and myths, the construction of the Jewish past, and the making and meaning of collective memory. Here, eminent scholars in their respective fields extend the lines of his seminal study into topics that range from medieval rabbinics, homiletics, kabbalah, and Hasidism to antisemitism, Zionism, and the making of modern Jewish identity. Essays are clustered around four central themes: historical consciousness and the construction of memory; the relationship between time and history in Jewish thought; the demise of traditional forms of collective memory; and the writing of Jewish history in modern times.

Memory and Manuscript

Memory and Manuscript
Author: Birger Gerhardsson
Publisher: Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1998
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780802843661

Here in one volume are two of Birger Gerhardsson's much-debated works on the transmission of tradition in Rabbinic Judaism and early Christianity. In Memory and Manuscript (1961), Gerhardsson explores the way in which Jewish rabbis during the first Christian centuries preserved and passed on their sacred tradition, and he shows how early Christianity is better understood in light of how that tradition developed in Rabbinic Judaism. In Tradition and Transmission in Early Christianity (1964), Gerhardsson further clarifies the discussion and answers criticism of his earlier book. This Biblical Resource Series combined edition corrects and expands Gerhardsson's original works and includes a new preface by the author and a lengthy new foreword by Jacob Neusner that summarizes the works' importance and subsequent influence.

Memory, Tradition, and Text

Memory, Tradition, and Text
Author: Alan K. Kirk
Publisher: Society of Biblical Lit
Total Pages: 294
Release: 2005
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 1589831497

Social and cultural memory theory examines the ways communities and individuals reconstruct and commemorate their pasts in light of shared experiences and current social realities. Drawing on the methods of this emerging field, this volume both introduces memory theory to biblical scholars and restores the category "memory" to a preeminent position in research on Christian origins. In the process, the volume challenges current approaches to research problems in Christian origins, such as the history of the Gospel traditions, the birth of early Christian literature, ritual and ethics, and the historical Jesus. The essays, taken in aggregate, outline a comprehensive research agenda for examining the beginnings of Christianity and its literature and also propose a fundamentally revised model for the phenomenology of early Christian oral tradition, assess the impact of memory theory upon historical Jesus research, establish connections between memory dynamics and the appearance of written Gospels, and assess the relationship of early Christian commemorative activities with the cultural memory of ancient Judaism. --From publisher's description.

Religion as a Chain of Memory

Religion as a Chain of Memory
Author: Danièle Hervieu-Léger
Publisher:
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2000
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9780813528281

Thus, religion may be perceived as a shared understanding with a collective memory that enables it to draw from the well of its past for nourishment in the increasingly secular present."--BOOK JACKET.

Memory and Hope

Memory and Hope
Author: Alon Goshen-Gottstein
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-08-08
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1532659237

This book tackles the core problem of how painful historical memories between diverse religious communities continue to impact—even poison—present-day relations. Its operative notion is the healing of memory, developed by John Paul II. Chapters explore how painful memories of yesteryear can be healed and so address some of the root causes. Strategies from six different faith traditions are brought together in what is, in some ways, a cross-religious brainstorming session that identifies tools to improve present-day relations. At the other pole of the conceptual axis of this book is the notion of hope. If memory informs our past, hope sets the horizon for our future. How does the healing of memory open new horizons for the future? And what is the notion of hope in each of our traditions that could lead to a common vision of good? Between memory and hope, this book seeks to offer a vision of healing that can serve as a resource in contemporary interfaith relations. Contributors: Rahuldeep Singh Gill, Alon Goshen-Gottstein, Maria Reis Habito, Flora A. Keshgegian, Anantanand Rambachan, Meir Sendor, Muhammad Suheyl Umar, and Michael von Brück

The Early Church

The Early Church
Author: Josef Lössl
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2010-02-17
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0567165612

This study of the early church is written from a new religious and theological studies perspective.

Zakhor

Zakhor
Author: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi
Publisher: UBS Publishers' Distributors
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780295975191

Discusses the nature of Jewish historical memory which traditionally concentrated on the religious meaning of history rather than on the events themselves. Medieval Jewish historians focused either on the ancient past or on recent persecutions, tending to identify them with biblical patterns of oppression. For example, the Hebrew chronicles of the Crusader massacres show awareness of a deterioration in Christian-Jewish relations, using the "binding of Isaac" as a pattern for Jewish martyrdom. Although the chronicles were forgotten, the memory of the persecutions was preserved in halakhic and liturgical works. The expulsion from Spain in 1492 stimulated a minor resurgence in Jewish historiography. However, the kabbalistic myth proved more influential than history. Modern Jewish historiography is based on the secular concept of historical science and, especially since the Holocaust, cannot take the place of group memory.--Publisher description.