TY  - BOOK
AU  - Koltun-Fromm,Naomi
TI  - Jewish-Christian Conversation in Fourth-Century Persian Mesopotamia: A Reconstructed Conversation 
T2  - Judaism in Context
SN  - 9781463201562
AV  - BM535 .K658 2011
U1  - 261.2/60935 
PY  - 2011///]
CY  - Piscataway, NJ : 
PB  - Gorgias Press, 
KW  - Christianity and other religions
KW  - Judaism
KW  - RELIGION / Judaism / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; TABLE OF CONTENTS --; Preface --; Abbreviations --; Introduction --; Chapter 1. Jews, Christians and Persecutions in Fourth-Century Persia --; Chapter 2. Chosenness: The Election of Israel --; Chapter 3. Marriage and Celibacy in Jewish and Christian Tradition --; Chapter 4. Ritual: Passover and Circumcision --; Conclusion --; Appendix: Post Second Temple Passover Sacrifices? --; Bibliography; restricted access
N2  - Was there an active Jewish-Christian polemic in fourth-century Persia? Aphrahat’s Demonstrations, a fourth-century adversus Judaeos text, clearly indicates that fourth-century Persian Christians were interested in the debate. Is there evidence of this polemic in the rabbinic literature? Despite the lack of a comparable Jewish or rabbinic adversus Christianos literature, there is evidence, both from Aphrahat and the Rabbis that this polemic was not one sided
UR  - https://doi.org/10.31826/9781463222710
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ER  -