Jews and Christians in Antiquity: A Regional Perspective

This volume brings together a selection of papers presented at two

conferences on Jewish-Christian interaction in Antiquity held in Leuven

and Aix-en-Provence in 2013 and 2014. It aims to introduce a different

approach to this crucial topic and some new issues following from this.

Specialists of Ancient Judaism, Early Christianity, Patristics, Late

Antiquity, Rabbinic Studies, Papyrology, Epigraphy, Hagiography, and

Gnosticism have focused on such topics as the consequences of the Jewish

wars for the relations between Jews and Christians in Palestina, the

cultural and religious exchange between the two communities in Alexandria,

Smyrna, Syria, the Jewish-Christian polemics in Rabbinic literature, the

papyrological and epigraphic evidences of the Jewish and Christian

presence in Egypt and Rome, the coexistence of Jews and Christians in

Northern Italy, Hispania, North Africa, Gaul, etc. The papers are arranged

chronologically (from the 1st to the 7th century CE) as well as

geographically (the Eastern and Western part of the Roman Empire). The

volume offers both general surveys and case studies , each of them

exploring different aspects of Jewish-Christian interaction.