Contents

pp 5-6

Abbreviations

pp 7-8

Introduction

pp 9-16

I - Conditions of Tolerance

pp 17-18

1 - From Conflict to Recognition: Rethinking a Scholarly Paradigm in the Study of Christian Origins

pp 19-46

2 - Mutable Ethnicity in the Dead Sea Scrolls: Intertwined Acts of Tolerance and Intolerance

pp 47-72

3 - Der geliebte „Feind“: Wahrnehmung des Anderen in Jesu Gebot der Feindesliebe und ihre Rezeption im Dokument Q – ein Beispiel antiker „Toleranz“ und „Anerkennung“?

pp 73-110

II - Jewish–Christian Relations between Tolerance and Intolerance

pp 111-112

4 - Was Paul Tolerant?: An Assessment of William S. Campbell’s and J. Brian Tucker’s “Particularistic” Paul

pp 113-138

5 - Since When Were Martyrs Jewish?: Apologies for the Maccabees’ Martyrdom and Making of Religious Difference

pp 139-168

6 - Hiding One’s Tolerance: Cyril of Alexandria’s Use of Philo

pp 169-194

7 - Rabbinic Reflections on Divine–Human Interactions: Speaking in Parables on the Miracle of Pregnancy and Birth

pp 195-226

III - Tolerance and Questions of Persecution, Gender, and Ecology

pp 227-228

8 - Were the Early Christians Really Persecuted?

pp 229-250

9 - “No Male and Female”: Women and the Rhetoric of Recognition in Early Christianity

pp 251-272

10 - Learning from “Others”: Reading Two Samaritan Stories in the Gospel of Luke from an Ecological Perspective

pp 273-290

Epilogue: Sites of Toleration

pp 291-304

Index of Ancient Sources

pp 305-314