Within Judaism? Interpretive Trajectories in Judaism, Christi... - 9781978715066

Within Judaism? Interpretive Trajectories in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam from the First to the Twenty-First CenturyAuthor(s): Karin Hedner Zetterholm, Anders Runesson, Mohammed Ibraheem Ahmed , William S. Campbell, Wally V. Cirafesi , Philip A. Cunningham, Elliot N. Dorff, Kathy Ehrensperger, Neil Elliott, Paula Fredriksen\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic\nISBN-13: 9781978715066, 978-1978715066\nSynopsis\nThis book charts the shifting boundaries of Judaism from antiquity to the modern period in order to bring clarity to what scholars mean when they claim that ancient texts or groups are within Judaism, as well as exploring how rabbinic Jews, Christians, and Muslims have negotiated and renegotiated what Judaism is and is not in order to form their own identities. Belief in Jesus as the Messiah was seen as part of first-century Judaism, but by the fourth or fifth century, the boundaries had shifted a.