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A Holy People - Jewish and Christian Perspectives on Religious Communal Identity [SIGNED BY EDITOR - JOSHUA SCHWARTZ]. [SERIES]: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series - Volume 12.

SIGNED BY EDITOR - JOSHUA SCHWARTZ (b.1952), professor of geo-historiography of the Land of Israel during the Hellenistic and Roman-Byzantine periods in the Department of Land of Israel Studies and Archeology at the Bar-Ilan University and head of the Ingeborg Rennert Center for Jerusalem Studies. RARE collection of papers on religio-communal definitions in Judaism and Christianity from the biblical, post-biblical/patristic and medieval periods to 20th-century, and the Jewish-Christian interaction throughout the ages. Of special importance to scholars and general readers interested in an interdisciplinary approach to theology, rabbinics, history, political science, this book will be of interest also to other academic disciplines, such as social sciences, history of ideas and philosophy. 245x160mm. XVIII+395 pages. Hardcover. Front cover upper edge and spine upper edge bumped/wrinkled. Cover fore edge and spine bottom edge slightly bumped/wrinkled. [SUMMARY]: This rare collection of interdisciplinary essays on Jewish and Christian perceptions of religious identity as people of community and holiness, written by the leading contemporary scholars of Judaism and Christianity, is in good condition.