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Article: Trading Places Sourcebook: Readings in the Intersecting Histories of Judaism and Christianity.(Review)
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- Journal of Ecumenical Studies
- Article date:
- June 22, 1998
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Bruce Chilton and Jacob Neusner, Cleveland, OH: Pilgrim Press, 1997. Pp. 293. $16.95, paper.
The thesis of Trading Places is that the history of Judaism and Christianity intersected and ultimately traded places between the first and fourth centuries, with respect to politics, values, teleology, and understandings of history. The authors claim to challenge the conception that the histories of early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism were parallel developments. They argue that "the histories of Judaism and Christianity not only do not run parallel, but that the lines of the respective histories intersect; and further, that in all the ways that count, they have ...