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| 0677-1272-01 | Who killed Jesus? The Jewish-Christian Polemic in Late Antiquity | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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University credit hours: 2.0
Course description
Who killed Jesus? The Jewish-Christian Polemic in Late Antiquity
Did the Jews kill Jesus? What is the resurrection going to look like? Was the world created ex nihilo? Who is Jesus’ father and is his mother really a virgin? What is the status of the Old Testament and should one observe the commandments? These questions and others stood in the heart of vehement polemics between Jews, Christians, Hellenes and Romans in the first centuries of the Common Era. In this course we will survey the main polemics, the means of argumentation and the various responses as they appear in rabbinic, Jewish Hellenistic and Christian literature, and through them we will study the interaction between the various communities of this era.
Did the Jews kill Jesus? What is the resurrection going to look like? Was the world created ex nihilo? Who is Jesus’ father and is his mother really a virgin? What is the status of the Old Testament and should one observe the commandments? These questions and others stood in the heart of vehement polemics between Jews, Christians, Hellenes and Romans in the first centuries of the Common Era. In this course we will survey the main polemics, the means of argumentation and the various responses as they appear in rabbinic, Jewish Hellenistic and Christian literature, and through them we will study the interaction between the various communities of this era.