In my comments today, I would like to offer my reflections on three trends I perceive in the study of early Jewish/Christian relations, both here at the SBL and more broadly.
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Marc Chagall, The Yellow Crucifixion
Marc Chagall, The Yellow Crucifixion
Twenty-five years ago I was a fresh eager newly minted Ph.D. who had recently completed a dissertation on an aspect of Jewish/Christian relations in the first two centuries CE.
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Solomon Alexander Hart, The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy
Solomon Alexander Hart, The Feast of the Rejoicing of the Law at the Synagogue in Leghorn, Italy
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Alexander and Bucephalus at the battle of Issus
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