Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface: Interrogate My Love -- List of Abbreviations -- 1 Introduction -- Part I: Making a Difference: The Heresiological Beginnings of Christianity and Judaism -- 2 Justin's Dialogue with the Jews: The Beginnings of Orthodoxy -- 3 Naturalizing the Border: Apostolic Succession in the Mishna -- Part II: The Crucifixion of the Logos: How Logos Theology Became Christian -- 4 The Intertextual Birth of the Logos: The Prologue to John as a Jewish Midrash -- 5 The Jewish Life of the Logos: Logos Theology in Pre- and Pararabbinic Judaism -- 6 The Crucifixion of the Memra: How the Logos Became Christian -- Part III: Sparks of the Logos: Historicizing Rabbinic Religion -- 7 The Yavneh Legend of the Stammaim: On the Invention of the Rabbis in the Sixth Century -- 8 "When the Kingdom Turned to Minut": The Christian Empire and the Rabbinic Refusal of Religion -- Concluding political postscript: A Fragment -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Y -- Acknowledgments.