Early Jewish Christian Relations

Call For Papers: For the 2022 annual meeting, Early Jewish Christian Relations seeks proposals for three sessions: 1. Pedagogies of Jewish-Christian Relations This session invites reflection on teaching and learning about Jewish-Christian relations in antiquity. Proposals may take an abstract or theoretical approach, considering one or more of the big questions implicit in teaching courses on Jewish-Christian relations. Alternatively, they may be practical, outlining specific strategies, assignments, forms of assessment, or structures for any kind of classroom setting. Also welcome are strategies for soliciting respectful dialogue across religious differences. 2. Conversions For this session, we invite reflection on conversion as a category of scholarly inquiry as well as a lived experience for ancient people. How should we think about conversion among ancient Jews and Christians (and between Christianity and Judaism), and how do our ways of describing conversion reflect both ancient and modern biases? Is conversion a religious, political, and/or social category? How does conversion appear in the literatures and material cultures of antiquity, and what can those appearances say about the way Jews and Christians related to each other? In short, what is at stake in our discourses of conversion? 3. Rabbinics and “Relations” What does the study of early Jewish Christian relations look like from the perspective of the study of rabbinics? What insights might non-specialists glean from the work of rabbinics scholars for thinking about early Jewish-Christian relations? How do the “relations” between these two groups appear when viewed from the perspective of rabbinics, and how might that perspective function as a corrective to other ways of describing the relationships between Judaism and Christianity in antiquity? What kinds of interdisciplinary partnerships might enhance scholarship in this area, and how should scholars of early Christianity go about forging such partner

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