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Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism

Contributor(s): Boyarin, Daniel (Author)

ISBN: 9780804736176

Publisher: Stanford University Press

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Pub Date: November 1, 1999

Dewey: 270.1

LCCN: 99040509

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Illustrated

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 1.10" H x 9.10" L x 6.30" W ( 1.20 lbs) 268 pages

BISAC Categories:

Religion | Christianity | History

Series: Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture

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Description: Scholars have come to realize that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism, not a genealogy in which one is parent to the other. In this book, the author develops a revised understanding of the interactions between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity.

Review Quotes: "Daniel Boyarin has done it again. With this book . . . he has again provoked, challenged, and enlightened us. With his usual clear, crisp, and sometimes sharp-edged writing, with his consistently critical engagement of ancient primary and modern and postmodern secondary interpretive texts and theories, Boyarin has forced us to think again and in some respects in radically different ways and on radically different terms about. . .the 'making' of Christianity and Judiasm."--Journal of the American Academy of Religion

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