Border Lines: The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity
The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before its subsequent division, certain beliefs and practices of this composite would have been identifiable as Christian or Jewish.In Border Lines, however, Daniel Boyarin makes a striking case for a...
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"Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism. . . . In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."—Jack Miles, Commonweal
Preface : interrogate my love1Introduction1Pt. IMaking a difference : the heresiological beginnings of Christianity and Judaism2Justin's dialogue with the Jews : the beginnings of orthodoxy373Naturalizing the border : apostolic succession in the Mishna74Pt. IIThe crucifixion of the Logos : how Logos theology became Christian4The intertextual birth of the Logos : the prologue to John as a Jewish Midrash895The Jewish life of the Logos : Logos theology in pre- and pararabbinic Judaism1126The crucifixion of the Memra : how the Logos became Christian128Pt. IIISparks of the Logos : historicizing rabbinic religion7The Yavneh legend of the Stammaim : on the invention of the rabbis in the sixth century1518"When the kingdom turned to Minut" : the Christian empire and the rabbinic refusal of religion202Concluding political postscript : a fragment227
\ From the Publisher"Encourages us to see historic Christianity as but one expression of a universalistic potential in Jewish monotheism. . . . In a fruitful career not yet nearly over, Border Lines, the culmination of many years of work, may well remain Daniel Boyarin's masterpiece."—Jack Miles, Commonweal\ "Boyarin's book challenges the ordinary usage of the terms 'Judaism' and 'Christianity' and juxtaposes the formation of orthodoxy as it is formulated within rabbinic tradition and among Christians of the patristic period. His bold thesis will no doubt prove controversial and important."—Elaine Pagels, author of Beyond Belief: The Secret Gospel of Thomas\ "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. The work is intensely provocative and innovative and is destined to take its proper place as a modern classic among Boyarin's previous works."—Shofar\ \ \
