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The Parting of the Roads: Studies in the Development of Judaism and Early Christianity (1912) is a volume edited by Frederick J. Foakes-Jackson.

Abstract

For a volume entitled The Parting of the Roads, the majority of the essays here collected have little to say concerning the breach between Judaism and Christianity, but a few diverse opinions may be gathered as to when a decisive break occurred. Inge, in his introduction, would conclude that there was no break because Christianity was never a part of Judaism, for “the Galileans had probably hardly a drop of Jewish blood.” Oesterley, in his survey history, places Jesus squarely within and a part of the Jewish milieu, both in respects to the Law and to eschatology, but had altered both of these Jewish concepts enough to have perhaps caused the break himself. The only systematic attempt at determining the stages of a Jewish Christian separation comes in Ephraim Levine’s article. In a scheme still largely seen today, Levine describes the break as a gradual process beginning with Paul and the Apostolic Conference and leading to more and more decisive factors – the destruction of the Temple, the radical theology of the 4th Gospel, and the final break coming with the Bar Kochba revolt. -- Jason Zurawski, University of Michigan

Editions

Published in London [England]: Arnold, 1912.

Contents

• Introductory / W.R. Inge
• How the Old Testament came into being / Frederick J. Foakes-Jackson
• The devotional value of the Old Testament / R.T. Howard
• Judaism in the days of Christ / William O.E. Oesterley
• Some characteristics of the synoptic writers / H.G. Wood
• St. Peter and the twelve / W.K.L. Clarke
• The theology of St. Paul / G.B. Redman
• The Johannine theology / B.T.D. Smith
• The breach between Judaism and Christianity / Ephraim Levine
• Revelation / Percival Gardner-Smith

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