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Peter Schäfer. Die Geburt des Judentums aus dem Geist des Christentums: Fünf Vorlesungen zur Entstehung des rabbinischen Judentums. Tria Cordia: Jenaer Vorlesungen zu Judentum, Antike und Christentum 6. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010. xvii, 210 pp., 5 Abb.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 May 2011

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert
Affiliation:
Stanford UniversityStanford, California
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Book Reviews: Rabbinics
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Copyright © Association for Jewish Studies 2011

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References

1. Quotes from the book in this review are my own translations from the German original.

2. Harvard University Press. Schäfer does not mention this book in his study.

3. Yuval, Israel, Two Nations in Your Womb: Perceptions of Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, trans. Harshav, Barbara and Chipman, Jonathan (Berkeley, Los Angeles, London: University of California Press, 2006)Google Scholar. Original Hebrew 1999. See especially the section on “The Late Typology: Edom id est Roma” (10–20) and on “The Mother, the Daughter, and the Sister” (26–30) in the introduction.

4. Edited by Adam Becker and Annette Yoshiko Reed, Minneapolis: Fortress Press, 2007; originally published in 2003 by Mohr Siebeck, in hardcover.

5. And this is in fact what Boyarin has proposed repeatedly, but most extensively already in Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1999)Google Scholar, especially in the introduction, where he discusses the conceptual problems of “The Old Paradigm: Religions as Kinfolk,” pp. 1–6 and throughout the book.

6. YBerakhot 2:4, 5a; cp. Eikha Rabba 1:16 par. 51 (ed. Buber p. 89f).

7. Bereshit Rabba 8:9; cp. Y Berakhot 9:1, 12d.

8. Importantly Boyarin, Daniel, Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.