Verus Israel —— Study of the Relations Between Christians and Jews in the Roman Empire, AD 135-425

----- 真正的以色列：罗马帝国基督徒与犹太人之间关系的研究，公元135-425

ISBN: 9781874774273 出版年：1996 页码：554 Simon, Marcel McKeating, Henry The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization

Marcel Simon's classic study examines Jewish-Christian relations in the Roman Empire from the second Jewish War (132-5 CE) to the end of the Jewish Patriarchate in 425 CE. First published in French in 1948, the book overturns the then commonly held view that the Jewish and Christian communities gradually ceased to interact and that the Jews gave up proselytizing among the gentiles. On the contrary, Simon maintains that Judaism continued to make its influence felt on the world at large and to be influenced by it in turn. He analyses both the antagonisms and the attractions between the two faiths, and concludes with a discussion of the eventual disappearance of Judaism as a missionary religion. The rival community triumphed with the help of a Christian imperial authority and a doctrine well adapted to the Graeco-Roman mentality.