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Playing a Jewish Game.


Playing A Jewish Game

Michele Murray

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Playing A Jewish Game: Gentile Christian Judaizing In The First And Second Centuries CE by Michele Murray (Assistant Professor, Department of Religion, Bishiop's University, Lennoxville, Quebeck, Canada) proposes the theory that significant strands of early Christian anti-Judaism were actually directed against Gentile Christian judaizers, Christians who combined their faith with varying Jewish practices yet did not see their own behavior as contradictory. Drawing evidence from canonical The standard or authoritative method. The term comes from "canon," which is the law or rules of the church. See canonical name and canonical synthesis.

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 sources, including Paul's Letter to the Galatians, and inviting the reader to reflect upon the events of history and the evidence of Gentile Christian judaizers in the era of the first and second centuries, Playing A Jewish Game offers a new perspective upon history and religious definition that reverberates as vital to better understanding Judaism and Christianity alike in contemporary times.
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