Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Introduction / Marcel Poorthuis, Joshua Schwartz and Joseph Turner -- Jews and Christians in the Roman-Byzantine period. Jewish-Christian relations and rabbinic literature : shifting scholarly and relational paradigms : the case of two powers / Alon Goshen-Gottstein -- Learning and practising : uses of an early Jewish discourse in Matthew (7:24-27) and rabbinic literature / Eric Ottenheijm -- Rabbinic and Christian models of interaction on the Song of songs / Tamar Kadari -- Monism and dualism in Jewish-mystical and Christian-gnostic ascent texts / Gerard P. Luttikhuizen -- A remarkable case of religious interaction : water baptisms in Judaism and Christianity / Gerard Rouwhorst -- On trees, waves, and cytokinesis : shifting paradigms in early (and modern) Jewish-Christian relations / Daniel Stökl Ben Ezra -- The deserts of Palestine : wilderness in the thought of the rabbis and the desert fathers : geographic reality and the criscrossing of motifs / Joshua Schwartz -- Jews and Christians in the Middle Ages. The modality of interaction between Jewish and Christian thought in the Middle Ages : the problem of free will and divine wisdom in Dante Alighieri and Menahem Recanati as a case study / Sandra Debenedetti Stow -- Die Pariser verfahren gegen den Talmud von 1240 und 1248 im kontext von papsttum un Französischem königtum / Daniela Mueller -- The dynamic of religious polemics : the case of Raymond Martin (ca. 1220-ca. 1285) / Syds Wiersma -- The Jewish Pardes metaphor as reflected in the magical garden of a Christian knight / Lily Glasner -- The problems of modernity. Calvinist resistance and Dutch Jewry : the 'pillarized' background / Gert van Klinken -- Religious insulation as a mode of interdependence : relating Catholicism and modernity / Staf Hellemans -- Good enough for the Goyim? : Samuel Hirsch and Samuel Holdheim on Christianity / Judith Frishman -- Sacred death for orthodox Jewish thought during the Holocaust : with a preliminary inquiry into Christian parallels / Gershon Greenberg -- Ritual and theology in the modern, post-modern and new ages. From monologues to possible dialogue : Judaism's attitude towards Christianity according to the philosophy of R. Yéhouda Léon Askénazi (Manitou) / Yossef Charvit -- Faith and the courage to be : Heschel and Tillich / Alexander Even-Chen -- 'A symbolic bridge between faiths' : holy ground for liquid ritual / Paul Post -- Kabbalah on the internet : transcending denominational boundaries in conflicting ideologies / Marcel Poorthuis and Frank Bosman -- 'An indissoluble bond between the church and the people of Israel' : historical fact or theological conviction? / Simon Schoon -- The anomaly of Jewish ethnicity as a consideration in contemporary interreligious dialogue / Joseph Turner -- Art. Jewish and Christian imaging of the 'house of God' : a fourth century reflection of religious and historical polemics / Shulamit Laderman and Yair Furstenberg -- The king of the King of Kings : images of rulership in late medieval and early modern Christian art and synagogue design / Ilia Rodov -- The sun rays on top of the Torah ark : a dialogue with the aureole, the Christian symbol of the Divinity on top of the altarpiece / Bracha Yaniv -- The iconography of the holy family in Chagall's 1909-1910 works / Mirjam Rajner -- Literature. Notes on Christians and Christianity in Agnon's writings / Hillel Weiss -- Gide and Sartre on Jews and Judaism / Yaffa Wolfman.

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When and how did Judaism and Christianity became two distinct religions? When did the 'parting of ways' take place, if indeed there really was such a parting of ways? This work contains a variety of essays that deal with the complex relationships between Judaism and Christianity.