Dying for God: Martyrdom and the Making of Christianity and Judaism

by Daniel Boyarin

Book Overview

Not long ago, everyone knew that Judaism came before Christianity. More recently, scholars have begun to recognize that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than that. In the Jewish world of the first century, many sects competed for the name of the true Israel and the true interpreter of the Torah--the Talmud itself speaks of seventy--and the form of Judaism that was to be the seedbed of what eventually became the Christian Church...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804737045
• ISBN13: 9780804737043
• Release Date: November 1999
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 268 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"