Building on the Ruins of the Temple

Apologetics and Polemics in Early Christianity and Rabbinic Judaism

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ID24044644
AuthorsAdam Gregerman (0000-0002-7765-5895, Saint Joseph's University, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume165
Pages280
Publication date2016-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueBuilding on the Ruins of the Temple (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherMohr Siebeck (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1628/978-3-16-154521-4
OpenAlexW2895425460
Open LibraryOL44464660M
ISBN9783161545214, 9783161543227
LanguageEN
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In the immediate centuries after the Romans' destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple in 70 CE, Jews and Christians offered contrasting religious explanations for the razing of the locus of God's presence on earth. Adam Gregerman analyzes the views found in three early Christian texts (Justin's Dialogue with Trypho , Origen's Contra Celsum , and Eusebius' Proof of the Gospel ) and one rabbinic text (the Midrash on Lamentations ), all of which emerged in the same place - the land of Israel - and around the same time -the first few centuries after 70. The author explores the ways they interpret the destruction in order to prove (in the case of Christians), or make it impossible to disprove (in the case of the Jews) that their community is the people of God. He demonstrates the apologetic and polemical functions of selected explanations, for claims to the covenant made by one community excluded those made by the other.

Ancient history · Art · Eusebius · Israel · Justin · Origen · Patristics · Temple · Antiquity · Church History · History of Ancient Religions · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History · Islamic Studies and History · Apologetics · Apologetics, history · Early church · Early church, ca. 30-600 · Judaism · Talmudic period · Talmudic period, 10-425

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