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Article: Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism.(Book Review)
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- Church History
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- December 1, 2002
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By Daniel Boyarin. Figurae: Reading Medieval Culture. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 1999. xi + 247 pp. $49.50 cloth; $16.95 paper.
In this revised, augmented, and annotated version of lectures delivered at Lancaster University and the Oxford Centre for Jewish Studies in January 1998, and again at Hebrew University in April of that year, Daniel Boyarin argues that the distinct identities of Rabbinic Judaism and Orthodox Christianity were not established until the fourth century, and that under the imperial influence that forced Christianity to clarify and enforce its standards of membership. On the whole, the four essays propose more than they ...