Monday, October 8, 2012

Christianity & rabbinic Judaism: Twins


On his blog, Peter Leithart summarizes Daniel Boyarin's argument that Christianity and rabbinic (read: modern-day) Judaism are both successors to Temple/Old Testament Judaism, rather than the latter being a kind of parent to the former. It's a historical argument I've often made, one to which Boyarin and Leithart add some interesting theological observations.

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