%0 Journal Article %1 Boyarin:2005 %A Boyarin, Daniel %A Burrus, Virginia %D 2005 %J Social Compass %K Christentum Identität Judentum %N 4 %P 431-441 %R 10.1177/0037768605058148 %T Hybridity as Subversion of Orthodoxy? Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity %U http://scp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/4/431 %V 52 %X Hybridity inflects Jewish and Christian identity in precisely the places where purity'' is most forcefully inscribed. In the formative texts of both traditions, heresy is pushed outside'' via its syncretistic representation, even as the other religion is brought inside'' through its close identification with heresy. Athanasius of Alexandria's 4th-century construction of doctrinal orthodoxy in opposition to the Judaizing'' heresy of Arius here serves as a case study of the imperializing hybrid identity inscribed by Christian heresiology. Talmudic tales of contested martyrdom in turn offer examples of the Jewish representation of heresy as a problem of Christianizing'' practice that produces the Rabbi as a resistant hybrid subject. Bringing the discursive analysis of ancient texts into dialogue with present contexts, the authors acknowledge both the promise of a Third Space'' of hybridity opening onto inter-religious negotiation and the menace potentially conveyed by such hyphenated identities as the Judeo-Christian''.

@article{Boyarin:2005, abstract = {Hybridity inflects Jewish and Christian identity in precisely the places where purity'' is most forcefully inscribed. In the formative texts of both traditions, heresy is pushed outside'' via its syncretistic representation, even as the other religion is brought inside'' through its close identification with heresy. Athanasius of Alexandria's 4th-century construction of doctrinal orthodoxy in opposition to the Judaizing'' heresy of Arius here serves as a case study of the imperializing hybrid identity inscribed by Christian heresiology. Talmudic tales of contested martyrdom in turn offer examples of the Jewish representation of heresy as a problem of Christianizing'' practice that produces the Rabbi as a resistant hybrid subject. Bringing the discursive analysis of ancient texts into dialogue with present contexts, the authors acknowledge both the promise of a Third Space'' of hybridity opening onto inter-religious negotiation and the menace potentially conveyed by such hyphenated identities as the Judeo-Christian''. }, added-at = {2008-04-24T18:57:46.000+0200}, author = {Boyarin, Daniel and Burrus, Virginia}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2b551b4535c82251240438f1bdfabfdf8/avs}, doi = {10.1177/0037768605058148}, eprint = {http://scp.sagepub.com/cgi/reprint/52/4/431.pdf}, interhash = {0f02d68d1ecad1767711cc1d68921071}, intrahash = {b551b4535c82251240438f1bdfabfdf8}, journal = {Social Compass}, keywords = {Christentum Identität Judentum}, number = 4, pages = {431-441}, timestamp = {2008-04-24T18:57:46.000+0200}, title = {Hybridity as Subversion of Orthodoxy? Jews and Christians in Late Antiquity}, url = {http://scp.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/52/4/431}, volume = 52, year = 2005 }