Boyarin

I have requested an interlibrary loan for a book--Boyarin, D. (2004). Border lines: The partition of Judaeo-Christianity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press. Logos does not have this book in their catalog. I would like to find something of similarity and same quality like this work. I know that Jacob Neusner has a lot of studies on this topic. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks in advance for the help.

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Ronald Quick

Christian - Will this help? I'm not sure how it works, but the book is available to borrow.

https://archive.org/details/borderlinesparti0000boya

Christian Alexander

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1280027#Comment_1280027

Yes Ronald. That resource is great. Thanks so much. I would like to know of books of similar quality. Any thoughts there?

David McClister

https://community.logos.com/discussion/comment/1280072#Comment_1280072

Search for titles containing “parting of the ways” at the main Logos site. That’s one of the general topics under which Boyarin’s book falls.

Rosie Perera

Sounds like that Boyarin book belongs in Logos, so I've put in a request for it:

https://feedback.logos.com/boards/logos-book-requests/posts/border-lines-the-partition-of-judaeo-christianity-divinations-rereading-late-ancient-religion

I did a search in my Library for Boyarin and "Border Lines" and found this book which references it in the bibliography of one of its chapters:

Into All the World: Emergent Christianity in Its Jewish and Greco-Roman Context

I can't speak to quality since I haven't read it, but it has a whole chapter called "The Parting of the Ways" (the phrase David McClister alerted me to which is the standard name of this topic).

Here's the Recommended Reading section at the end of that chapter:

* Becker, Adam H., and Annette Yoshiko Reed, eds. The Ways that Never Parted: Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. TSAJ 95. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2003.

* Boyarin, Daniel. Border Lines: The Partition of Judeo-Christianity. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004.

* Dunn, James D. G. The Partings of the Ways between Christianity and Judaism and Their Significance for the Character of Christianity. Second edition. London: SCM, 2006.

* Dunn, James D. G., ed. Jews and Christians—The Parting of the Ways, A. D. 70 to 135: The Second Durham-Tübingen Research Symposium on Earliest Christianity and Judaism, Durham, September, 1989. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1992.

* Goodman, Martin. “Nerva, the Fiscus Judaicus, and Jewish Identity.” JRS 79 (1989): 40–44.

* Hagner, D. A. “Another Look at ‘The Parting of the Ways.’ ” Pages 381–427 in Earliest Christian History: History, Literature, and Theology: Essays from the Tyndale Fellowship in Honor of Martin Hengel. Edited by Michael F. Bird and Jason Maston. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2012.

* Heemtra, Marius. The Fiscus Judaicus and the Parting of the Ways. WUNT 2.277. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2010.

* Jossa, Giorgio. Jews or Christians? The Followers of Jesus in Search of Their Own Identity. Translated by Molly Rogers. WUNT 202. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2006.

* Lieu, Judith. Neither Jew nor Greek? Constructing Early Christianity. New York: T&T Clark, 2002.

* Robinson, Thomas A. Ignatius of Antioch and the Parting of the Ways: Early Jewish-Christian Relations. Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 2009.

* Spence, Stephen. The Parting of the Ways: the Roman Church as a Case Study. Interdisciplinary Studies in Ancient Culture and Religion 5. Leuven: Peeters, 2004.

* Wilson, Stephen G. Related Strangers: Jews and Christians, 70–170 C. E. Minneapolis: Fortress, 1995.

A search for "the parting of the ways" in your own Library might turn up some other things. Here are a couple of hits I got:

1) Abstract of an article. Unfortunately this journal is not available in Logos.

The Parting of the Ways: Theological Construct or Historical Reality?

Lieu, Judith. “The Parting of the Ways: Theological Construct or Historical Reality?” Journal for the Study of the New Testament 1994, Vol. 56, pp: 101–119. ISSN: 0142–064X

The parting of the ways has in recent years become a standard model for describing the split between Judaism and Christianity, with debate focusing on its causes and date. Yet although the model is considerably more irenic than its predecessors (supersessionism; a take over), it is equally driven by a theological need to maintain the unity between Israel and the church; neither is it a model which would have been understood at the time, by the Christian, Jewish, or pagan participants. A more nuanced approach needs to recognize that the relationship between Judaism and Christianity would have been differently perceived by the different participants, and in different contexts. Evidence of Jews, Christians, and pagans interacting on a social and popular religious level also indicates that the distancing rhetoric of the theologians frequently failed to be matched by the experience of many people. Specific and local analyses, and a more flexible map are required, and the functions of different models to answer different questions or maintain different interpretations need to be recognized.

Source: William Sailer et al., Religious and Theological Abstracts (Myerstown, PA: Religious and Theological Abstracts, 2012).

2) A listing of the contents of one of the books from the bibliography above:

Jews and Christians: The partings of the ways A.D. 70 to 135. The Second Durham Tübingen Research Symposium on Earliest Christianity and Judaism, ed. by James D. G. Dunn. WUNT 66. Tübingen: Mohr (Siebeck), 1992. Pp. 408. N.P.

The papers in this volume were delivered at the second Durham-Tübingen Research Symposium on Earliest Christianity and Judaism, at the University of Durham, in September, 1989. There are 13 essays, with a preface and Concluding Summary and Postscript. The essays are: “ ‘The Parting of the Ways’ from the Perspective of Rabbinic Judaism,” by Philip S. Alexander (pp. 1–25); “Diaspora Reactions to the Destruction of the Temple,” by Martin Goodman (pp. 27–38); “Die Septuaginta als von den Christen beanspruchte Schriftensammlung bei Justin und den Vätern vor Origenes,” by Martin Hengel (pp. 39–84); “Synkretische Züge in jüdischen und judenchristlichen Taufbewegungen,” by Hermann Lichtenberger (pp. 85–97); “Matthew’s Christology and the Parting of the Ways,” by Graham N. Stanton (pp. 99–116); “A note on the textual evidence for the omission of Matthew 9:34,” by J. Neville Birdsall (pp. 117–22); “ ‘In Him was Life’: John’s Gospel and the Parting of the Ways,” by John McHugh (pp. 123–58); “Das Christusbild der Paulus-Schule—eine Skizze,” by Peter Stuhlmacher (pp. 159–75); “The Question of Antisemitism in the New Testament Writings of the Period,” by James D. G. Dunn (pp. 177–211); “The Parting of the Ways: the Evidence of Jewish and Christian Apocalyptic and Mystical Material,” by Christopher Rowland (pp. 213–37); “The Parting of the Ways: Eschatology and Messianic Hope,” by Andrew Chester (pp. 239–313); “Jewish-Christian Relations in Barnabas and Justin Martyr,” by William Horbury (pp. 315–45) and “Problems of the Clementine Literature,” by J. Neville Birdsall (pp. 347–61). There are indexes of sources, authors, subjects, and Greek words.

John J. Collins

Source: John J. Collins, “Review of Jews and Christians: The Partings of the Ways A.D. 70 to 135. The Second Durham Tübingen Research Symposium on Earliest Christianity and Judaism, Ed. by James D. G. Dunn,” Journal of Biblical Literature 113 (1994): 368–369.