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Book Synopsis"Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism... In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."-Jack Miles, Commonweal
Trade Review"Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism. . . . In a fruitful career not yet nearly over,
Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece." * Jack Miles,
Commonweal *
"Boyarin's book challenges the ordinary usage of the terms 'Judaism' and 'Christianity' and juxtaposes the formation of orthodoxy as it is formulated within rabbinic tradition and among Christians of the patristic period. His bold thesis will no doubt prove controversial and important." * Elaine Pagels, author of
Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas *
"Boyarin proposes that by constructing the categories of religious orthodoxy and heresy, second-century Gentile Christians created the concept of religion which pervades the Western world to this day. The work is intensely provocative and innovative and is destined to take its proper place as a modern classic among Boyarin's previous works." *
Shofar *
Table of ContentsPreface: Interrogate My Love
List of Abbreviations
Chapter 1. Introduction
PART I. MAKING A DIFFERENCE: THE HERESIOLOGICAL BEGINNINGS OF CHRISTIANITY AND JUDAISM
Chapter 2. Justin's Dialogue with the Jews: The Beginnings of Orthodoxy
Chapter 3. Naturalizing the Border: Apostolic Succession in the Mishna
PART II. THE CRUCIFIXION OF THE LOGOS: HOW LOGOS THEOLOGY BECAME CHRISTIAN
Chapter 4. The Intertextual Birth of the Logos: The Prologue to John as a Jewish Midrash
Chapter 5. The Jewish Life of the Logos: Logos Theology in Pre- and Pararabbinic Judaism
Chapter 6. The Crucifixion of the Memra: How the Logos Became Christian
PART III. SPARKS OF THE LOGOS: HISTORICIZING RABBINIC RELIGION
Chapter 7. The Yavneh Legend of the Stammaim: On the Invention of the Rabbis in the Sixth Century
Chapter 8. "When the Kingdom Turned to Minut": The Christian Empire and the Rabbinic Refusal of Religion
Concluding Political Postscript: A Fragment
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
