Identidades fluidas, apropiación cultural y violencia religiosa

Una invitación a la relectura del Diálogo con Trifón

Abstract

The present work pretends to be an invitation to go back to Justin Martyr’s “Diálogue with Trypho”, a christian apologetic text from the 2nd century, with the help of some contemporary anthropology and sociology clues. In contrast to a conventional point of view where prevails the Jewish and Christian confrontation as perfectly delimitated identities, shown as the two characters in the dialog, we suggest a seamless vision of those. Both identities, in the 2nd century, are being formed and the boundaries between them are not quite defined. Many Christians see themselves as a Jewish followers of Jesus and lots of Jewish are looking for a redefinition of their own identities after Jerusalem Temple’s destruction. Besides, both identities are
marginal when seen from Roman Empire’s point of view, who thinks they are superstitious and barbarian. The Jewish cultural appropriation by Christianity and the Hellenism by those two allows us to approach to a text and an environment much more complex than it appeared until nowadays. In the second part of this work, the text is analysed using modern critical hermeneutics: Peter Sloterdijk’s stress concept, The Sundermeier’s secondary religious experience and Jan Asseman’s concept of anti-religion.