"The present volume collects and extends the results of over a decade of [the author's] experiments in reorienting research on zJewish-Christianityy so as to relativize and recontextualize the representation of Jews and Jewishness in Patristic literature, while also engaging Jewish sources, trajectories of Jewish history, and questions from and about Jewish Studies."--Page xix.

Collection of articles, some previously published.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Abbreviations -- Primary Sources -- Introduction : Historicizing "Jewish-Christianity" -- Prolegomenon : Christian Origins as Jewish History -- "Jewish-Christians" and the Historiography of Early Jewish, Christian Relations -- "Jewish-Christianity" after the "Parting of the Ways" -- The "Parting of the Ways" and the History of Scholarship on the Pseudo-Clementines -- Historiography and Identity in the Pseudo-Clementines -- Jews, Gentiles, and Salvation-History in Rec. 1.27-71 -- Two Teachers of Truth : Moses and Jesus in Hom. 8.5-7 and Rec. 4.5 -- Demons, Jews, and Gentiles in Hom. 8-11 and Rec. 4-6 -- "Jewish-Christianity" in Hom. 8-11 and Rec. 4-6 -- The Pseudo-Clementines in Their Late Antique Contexts -- Beyond "Judaism" and "Christianity" in the Roman Near East -- Exporting "Christianity" and Other Local Identities -- Water, Blood, Purity, and Boundaries -- Mishnah Niddah -- Didascalia apostolorum -- Pseudo-Clementine Homilies Blood and Water, Between and Beyond "Religion(s)" -- Beyond "Judaism" and "Christianity" -- "Jewish-Christian" Apocrypha and Jewish, Christian Relations -- "Jewish-Christian" Apocrypha from the Second and Third Centuries -- "Jewish-Christian" Apocrypha from the Fourth and Fifth Centuries -- Revisiting the Problem of "Jewish-Christianity" -- Hellenism and Judaism in "Jewish-Christian" Perspective -- Greeks vs. "Barbarians" in Homilies 4-6 -- Hellenism in Josephus, Tatian, and Homilies 4-6 -- Judaism in the Debate with Appion and the Homilies -- Homilies 4-6 and Rec. 10.17-51 -- Homilies 4-6 and the Redaction of the Homilies -- Remapping "Hellenism" and "Judaism" in Late Antiquity -- Heresy, Minut, and the "Jewish-Christian" Novel -- The Homilies as Heresiology -- Histories of "Heresy" in the Homilies and Epiphanius -- Hellenism and Samaritanism as "Heretical" Paradigms -- Narrativized Polemics in the Homilies and Rabbinic Literature Heresiology, Identity, and Polemics -- "Jewish-Christianity" as Counterhistory? -- The Pseudo-Clementines and the History of the Apostolic Age -- The Homilies and Eusebius' Ecclesiastical History -- Apostolic Succession and the Transmission of Truth -- Primordial Truth, Jewish Succession, and Apostolic Teaching -- The Apostolic Mission -- Peter, Paul, and Clement of Rome -- "Orthodoxy" and "Heresy" -- "Jewish-Christianity" -- History and Counterhistory -- "Jewish-Christianity" in Jewish History and Jewish Studies -- Messianism between Judaism and Christianity -- Messianism and Difference -- Jewish Messianism and Christian Self-Definition -- Jewish Identities and "Jewish-Christian" Counterhistories -- Modern Counterhistories of Christianity and Jewish Messianism -- Christianity and the Messiahs of Judaism -- Secrecy, Suppression, and the Jewishness of Christian Originsarrativized Polemics in the Homilies and Rabbinic Literature Ferdinand Christian Baur on Petrine "Jewish-Christianity, " Lost and Rediscovered -- John Toland on Censored "Apocrypha" and the Secret (Jewish) History of Christianity -- Secrecy and the Transmission of Torah and Truth in the Epistle of Peter to James and the Homilies -- From the Christian Reception of the Epistle of Peter to James to Its Modern Jewish Afterlives -- Censorship between Cultural Amnesia and Cultural Creativity -- When Did Rabbis Become Pharisees? -- Matthew 23 in the "Shadow of Yavneh" -- Contextualizing Matthew 23 : Rabbinic and Epigraphical Data -- Early Christian Perspectives on Matthew 23 and Pharisees -- "Jewish-Christian" Re-readings of Matthew's Pharisees -- "Jewish-Christian" Evidence for Jewish History? -- Rethinking "Jewish-Christian" Evidence for Jewish Mysticism -- Christianity in the Historiography of Jewish Mysticism -- "Jewish-Christian" Evidence for Jewish Mysticism? -- Rereading Ps.-Clem. Hom. 17.7ture From Parallels to Contexts -- The Modern Jewish Rediscovery of "Jewish-Christianity" -- The Pseudo-Clementines, John Toland, and the Modern Invention of "Jewish-Christianity" -- Heinrich Graetz and the Jewishness of "Jewish-Christians" -- Augustus Neander, Gnosis, and "Jewish-Christianity" -- Remembering and Forgetting "Jewish-Christianity" and Wissenschaft des Judentums -- Epilogue : After "Origins, " Beyond "Identity, " and Before "Religion(s)" -- After "Origins" -- Beyond "Identity" -- Before "Religion(s)" -- Looking Ahead -- Timeline of Key Texts, Figures, and Events -- Annotated Bibliography on "Jewish-Christianity" -- Ioudaios before and after "Religion" -- "Jew" and the Making of the Christian Gaze -- Index of Sources -- Author Index.

"Jewish-Christianity" is a contested category in current research. But for precisely this reason, it may offer a powerful lens through which to rethink the history of Jewish/Christian relations. Traditionally, Jewish-Christianity has been studied as part of the origins and early diversity of Christianity. Collecting revised versions of previously published articles together with new materials, Annette Yoshiko Reed reconsiders Jewish-Christianity in the context of Late Antiquity and in conversation with Jewish studies. She brings further attention to understudied texts and traditions from Late Antiquity that do not fit neatly into present day notions of Christianity as distinct from Judaism. In the process, she uses these materials to probe the power and limits of our modern assumptions about religion and identity.--Book jacket.