Partings: How Judaism and Christianity Became Two

Partings traces the compelling and often muddled history of Judaism and Christianity through their formative years, from the shared background of first-century Judaism and all its varieties to the diverse interactions and experiences of Jews, Christians, and Jewish-Christians under centuries of Roman rule. More than a dozen chapters, authorized by the worlds' foremost scholars in early Judaism and Christianity, tell the story of a complex and evolving parting of the ways that occurred in different ways in different places and at different times.