'Impregnable ramparts and walls of iron': Boundary and identity in early 'Judaism' and 'Christianity'

New Testament Studies

Volumn 48, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 297-313

  Lieu, Judith ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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DOI: 10.1017/s002868850200019x     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. See R. Jenkins, Social Identity (London/ New York: Routledge, 1996) for an introduction and for the interdependence of personal and social identity. The bibliography on the subject is substantial, and much fuller reference and discussion of methodology than is possible here will be made in a forthcoming monograph on early Christian identity
2. The significance of 'text' for Judaism and Christianity engenders the temptation to textualize and intellectualize both, and yet both, through their texts, stress the inescapability of embodiment. See H. Eilberg-Schwartz, ed., People of the Body: Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective (Albany: SUNY, 1992)
3. Origen, Afric. 5
4. SHA Hadrian 11.2, 'murumque per octoginta milia passuum primus duxit, qui barbaros Romanosque divideret'
5. E. Hall, Inventing the Barbarians: Greek Self-definition Through Tragedy (Oxford: Clarendon, 1989)
6. See C. R. Whittaker, Frontiers of the Roman Empire: A Social and Economic Study (Baltimore & London: Johns Hopkins, 1994)
7. See already R. W. Macon, Herodotus: The Seventh, Eighth, and Ninth Books, vol. 1 part 2 (London: Macmillan, 1908) 590-3 for a classic attempt simultaneously to affirm and to deny Herodotus's claim
8. For this as a subverting theme already in the Hebrew scriptures see R. Schwartz, The Curse of Cain: The Violent Legacy of Monotheism (Chicago/ London: University of Chicago, 1997)
9. R. Kraemer, When Aseneth Met Joseph (New York/Oxford: Oxford University, 1998) 155-67
10. Tacitus Hist. 5.4: 'Profana illic omnia quae apud nos sacra; rursum concessa apud illos quae nobis incesta'
11. See C. Edwards, The Politics of Immorality in Ancient Rome (Cambridge: Cambridge University, 1993)
12. See R. Kraemer, 'The Other as Woman: An Aspect of Polemic among Pagans, Jews and Christians in the Greco-Roman World', The Other in Jewish Thought and History: Constructions of Jewish Culture and Identity (ed. L. Silberstein and R. Cohn; New York & London: New York University, 1994) 121-44
13. cf. Dauge, Le Barbare, 397-8
14. J. J. Collins, Between Athens and Jerusalem: Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Diaspora (New York: Crossroad, 1983), who emphasizes the diversity of patterns, and the absence of some or all of these 'markers' from some important texts
15. V. Grimm, From Fasting to Feasting: The Evolution of a Sin (New York/ London: Routledge, 1996)
16. Foucault, History of Sexuality
17. Edwards, The Politics of Immorality, 63-97
18. Tatian, Orat. 28; 32
19. Irenaeus, Adv.Haer. 1.6.3-4
20. cf. Kraemer, 'The Other as Woman', 124-5
21. See R. Pummer, 'Genesis 34 in Jewish Writings of the Hellenistic Period', HTR 75 (1982) 177-88
22. C. Werman, 'Jubilees 30: Building a Paradigm for the Ban on Intermarriage', HTR 90 (1997) 1-22
23. Philo, Migr.Abr. 39 [224] implicitly denies their circumcision
24. On the question of intermarriage in Jewish law see S. Cohen, 'The Prohibition of Intermarriage', The Beginnings of Jewishness (Berkeley: University of California, 1999) 241-62
25. (Habinek, Politics, 162)
26. On the question of the impurity of the Gentiles in rabbinic sources see Stern, Jewish Identity, 52-56
27. So M. Goodman, 'Identity and Authority in Ancient Judaism', Judaism 39 (1990) 192-201, 193-4
28. See E. Gruen, Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University, 1992) 6-51
29. see E. Gruen, Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (Berkeley: University of California, 1998) 46-60, 247-8
30. See J. M. Lieu, "The Forging of Christian Identity', Mediterranean Archaeology 11 (1998) 71-82