Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

Part One: Materials that Report Jewish Reactions to Christians

The Pauline and Deutero-Pauline Letters

The Synoptic Gospels

The Book of Acts

The Gospel of John

Revelation

Josephus

The Martydom of Polycarp

The Gospel of Peter

The Christian Apologists

Jewish and Christian Writers After 150 C.E.

Part Two: Major Trends

Major Trends Detected

Tolerance

Physical Attacks

Verbal Reactions

Observations

Notes

Bibliography

Indexes

About the Author

Claudia Setzer is a professor of religious studies at Manhattan College in Riverdale, NY. Her books include The Bible in the American Experience (co-edited with David Shefferman), The Bible and American Culture: A Sourcebook (co-edited with David Shefferman), Resurrection of the Body in Early Judaism and Early Christianity: Doctrine, Community, and Self-Definition, and Jewish Responses to Early Christians: History and Polemics, 30-150 C.E.