Playing a Jewish Game: Gentile Christian Judaizing in the First and Second Centuries CE

by Michele Murray

Is it possible that early Christian anti-Judaism was directed toward people other than Jews? Michele Murray proposes that significant strands of early Christian anti-Judaism were directed against Gentile Christians. More specifically, it was directed toward Gentile Christian judaizers. These were Christians who combined a commitment to Christianity with adherence in varying degrees to Jewish practices, without viewing such behaviour as contradictory...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0889204012
• ISBN13: 9780889204010
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"