The question of the origins of Christianity is a theme still discussed in historical research. This book investigates the relations between the Rabbinic Judaism and the Primitive Christianity. It studies the factors of influences, the polemics in the texts and factors of mutual conceptions between two new movements: Rabbinical Judaism and Primitive Christianity. Finally it offers an analysis of the perception of Christianity in the corpus of talmudic literature.
"Der lesenswerte Sammelband enthält ebenso interessante wie materialreiche Beiträge zur Frühgeschichte des Christentums. Insbesondere die Beiträge jüdischer Wissenschaftler ermöglichen einen überaus ertragreichen Perspektivwechsel hinsichtlich der exegetischen Betrachtung und religionsgeschichtlichen Interpretation der frühchristlichen Literatur." â Michael Tilly, in: Theologische Literaturzeitung 136 (2011)
All those interested in intellectual history, history of religion, history of Rabbinical Judaism, history of Early Christianity, as well as talmudists, historians of Judaism and historians of Christianity.