"This volume emerged from the symposium held at Paris in March 2007 on the theme 'Rome, Athens or Jerusalem. Where does Christianity come from?' under the auspices of the Alliance Israelite Universelle" -- Introd.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

La qu�ete du J�esus de l'histoire et la judaicit�e de J�esus / Daniel Marguerat -- J�esus le Nazar�een : fondateur, ou r�enovateur? / Fran�cois Blancheti�ere -- "In Nehardea there are no heretics" : the purported Jewish response to Christianity in Nehardea (a re-examination of the Talmudic evidence) / Barak S. Cohen -- Repr�esentations et attraits du christianisme dans les sources talmudiques : proposition d'un nouveau paradigme / Dan Jaffe -- "The Lord shall lift up his countenance upon you" (Numbers 6:26) : an anti-Christian polemical Midrash by the sages? / Avinoam Cohen -- On the Jewish background of Christianity / Daniel R. Schwartz -- The Jewish-Christian's move from Jerusalem as a pragmatic choice / Jonathan Bourgel -- The Temple in Mark : a case study about the early Christian attitude toward the Temple / Eyal Regev -- Quelques r�eflexions historiques sur les origines pa�iennes : pr�esum�ees du christianisme primitif / Emmanuel Friedheim -- Jewish-Christian contacts in the second and third centuries C.E. : the case of Carthage : Tertullian and the Mishnah's views on idolatry / Stephanie E. Binder.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

Essays in English or French.