1 Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface: Interrogate My Love ix
4. Abbreviations xvii
5. 1 Introduction 1
6. PART I. Making a Difference: The Heresiological Beginnings of Christianity and Judaism
7. 2 Justin's Dialogue with the Jews: The Beginnings of Orthodoxy 37
8. 3 Naturalizing the Border: Apostolic Succession in the Mishna 74
9. PART II. The Crucifixion of the Logos: How Logos Theology Became Christian
10. 4 The Intertextual Birth of the Logos: The Prologue to John as a Jewish Midrash 89
11. 5 The Jewish Life of the Logos: Logos Theology in Pre- and Pararabbinic Judaism 112
12. 6 The Crucifixion of the Memra: How the Logos Became Christian 128
13. PART III. Sparks of the Logos: Historicizing Rabbinic Religion
14. 7 The Yavneh Legend of the Stammaim: On the Invention of the Rabbis in the Sixth Century 151
15. 8 "When the Kingdom Turned to Minut": The Christian Empire and the Rabbinic Refusal of Religion 202
16. Concluding Political Postscript: A Fragment 227
17. Notes 229
18. Bibliography 333
19. Index 361
20. Acknowledgments 373