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 Negotiating Identities: Conflict, Conversion, and Consolidation in Early Judaism and Christianity This book examines identity formation processes in early Judaism and Christianity, using archaeological remains, historical studies, and ancient sources. It explores how ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, communality, and institution building shaped group identities. The chapters in this book demonstrate how disputes about ethnicity, stereotyping, purity, commensality, and institution building influenced the formation of group identities. It's incredible how much terrain this book covers and masters in a thought-provoking manner. It is almost like an advanced handbook on various topics related to Judaism and its role in Early Christianity. This edited work is an in-depth examination of the method, interpretation history, historical context, Judaism's legacy in Early Christianity, and hermeneutics, to name a few of the important subjects covered. Furthermore, the book fulfills