This book presents a selection of articles written by Israeli scholars who are part of a research group on early Christianity and its interaction with Judaism. The book discusses key issues in the field today: typological figures for Jesus (John the Baptist, Jeremiah and Moses), the identity of early Jewish-Christians, the interaction between Christianity and the Rabbis, and early Christian communities.

List of Contributors - About the Editors - Preface - Introduction - Rivka Nir: The 'Christian' Message of John the Baptist in the Synoptic Gospels - David (Dmitry) Kopeliovich: The New Jeremiah in the New Testament: Concerning Some Narrative Strategies in Luke - Serge Ruzer: Moses and Jesus as Bearers of God's Logos in the Prologue of John and the Question of John's Christology - Summary of a Lecture by Daniel. R. Schwartz: Would the Christian Paul Consider Himself a Jew? - Jonathan Bourgel: Th e Fiscus Judaicus: A Touchstone of Jewish (- Christian) Identity? - Dan Jaffé: Extra Ecclesiam nulla Salus! Birkat ha- minim Reconsidered - Text and Context - Yael Wilfand: 'Like Snake Venom'? The Rabbis and Christian Charity -Menachem Ben Shalom: Rabbi Hanina ben Dosa and his Hasidic Image in Light of Talmudic Tradition (Yerushalmi v. Bavli) - Yaakov Teppler: The Trial of Rabbi Eliezer ben Hyrcanus and the Parting of the Ways - Barak S. Cohen: Dating Anti- Christian Sources in the Babylonian Talmud - Ben Zion Rosenfeld and Arie Levene: The Christian Community in Syria (110- 180 CE): The Creation of 'Syrian Christianity' - Eyal Regev: Were the Early Christians Sectarians? Searching for Sectarianism in the New Testament.