The essays in this book consider issues of tolerance and intolerance faced by Jews and Christians between approximately 200 BCE and 200 CE. Several chapters are

This collection of essays investigates signs of toleration, recognition, respect and other positive forms of interaction between and within religious groups of

The present volume reexamines both ancient Christian and Jewish portrayals of outsiders. In what ways, both positive and negative, do ancient writers interact w

Collects essays from fifteen prominent thinkers analyzing how sacred texts from different religions support religious tolerance.

Religious intolerance, so terrible and deadly in its recent manifestations, is nothing new. In fact, until after the eighteenth century, Christianity was perhap