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Article: Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity.(Book Review)
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- January 1, 2006
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Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity, by Daniel Boyarin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. 374 pp. $38.50.
In his latest book, Daniel 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. Rabbis of the same period shared these constructions of religion, working in response and in a certain sense in tandem with their Christian counterparts. These reciprocal definitions of orthodoxy and heresy revolved around the acceptance or denial of Logos theology, the idea of a "second divine entity ...