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Not
so very
long ago, everyone
knew that Judaism
came before
Christianity.

More recently,
scholars have begun to recognize
that the historical picture is quite a bit more complicated than just that:
in the Jewish world of the first century, many sects competed for the name of the true Israel
and the true interpreter of the Torah ~ the Talmud itself speaks of seventy ~
and the form of Judaism that was to be the seedbed of what eventually
became the Christian Church
was but one of these
many sects.

Scholars
have come to realize
that we can and need to speak of a twin birth of Christianity and Judaism,
not a genealogy in which one
is parent to
the other.

We
have to
develop a revised
understanding of the interactions
between nascent Christianity and nascent Judaism in late antiquity,
interpreting the two "new" religions as intensely
and complexly intertwined
throughout this
period.

Although
the "officials"
of the eventual winners
in both communities ~ the Rabbis in Judaism
and the orthodox leaders in Christianity ~ sought to deny it,
until the end of late antiquity many people remained both Christians and Jews:
this resulted, among other things, in much shared religious innovation
that affected the respective orthodoxies
as well!

Our myDijourney
into this religious space
of more or less the past 3000 years
aims to establish this model as a realistic one
through close and comparative readings of comtemporary
religious texts from all relevant sources, Jewish, Hindu, Buddhist, Christian,
Muslim & Talmudic narratives that thematize these crossreligious/cultural/philosophical
& social/political connections and differences, between African, Asian and European
Christians and Jews as these emerged around the issues
of martyrdom and peaceful coexistence especially
during the last 20 ages.

We
can easily
argue therefore that,
in the end, the developing discourse
of martyrology and peace-movements involved the circulation
and exchange of cultural and religious innovations between,
among others, these two communities
as they moved, and are
moving still, toward
sharper self-
definition.

Sleep well:
dream sweet and
tell us all about it ~
if you want to and still can!
Tomorrow, or some
other time
...

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