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In this book, Judith Lieu explores the formation and shaping of early Christian identity within Judaism and within the wider Graeco-Roman world in the period before 200 C.E. Bringing to bear the latest analytical methods, she examines the way that literary texts presented early Christianity. She combines this with interdisciplinary historical investigation and interaction with the most recent work on Judaism in late Antiquity and on the Graeco-Roman world. The result is a very significant contribution in four of the key questions in current New Testament scholarship: how did early Christian identity come to be formed; how should we best describe and understand the processes by which the Christian movement became separate from its Jewish origins; was there anything special or different about the way women entered Judaism and early Christianity; and how did martyrdom contribute to the construction of early Christian identity?
| ISBN | 0567083268 | | Volumes | 1 | | ISBN13 | 9780567083265
(What's this?) | | Weight (grammes) | 272 | | Publisher | Continuum International Publishing Group Ltd. | | Published in | London | | Imprint | T.& T.Clark Ltd | | Series title | Studies in the New Testament & Its World S. | | Format | Paperback | | Height (mm) | 216 | | Publication date | 29 Sep 2005 | | Width (mm) | 138 | | DEWEY | 270.1 | | Spine width (mm) | 23 | | DEWEY edition | DC21 | | Academic level | Undergraduate, Postgraduate, Professional / Scholarly | | Pages | 288 | |
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Preface; 1. Introduction: Neither Jew nor Greek? Constructing Early Christianity; Part I Disappearing Boundaries; 2. Parting of the Ways: Theological Construct or Historical Reality? 3. Do God-fearers make Good Christians? 4. The Race of the God-fearers; 5. Ignoring the Competition; Part II Women in Conversion in Judaism and Christianity; 6. The Attraction of Women in/to Early Judaism and Christianity: Gender and the Politics of Conversion; 7. Circumcision, Women and Salvation; Part III Theology and Scripture in Early Christian Views of Judaism; 8. History and Theology in Christian Views of Judaism; 9. Accusations of Jewish Persecution in Early Christian Sources; 10. Reading in Canon and Community: Deuteronomy 21.22--23, A Test Case for Dialogue; Part IV The Shaping of Early 'Christian' identity; 11. The Forging of Christian identity and the Letter to Diognetus; 12. The New Testament and Early Christian identity; 13. 'I am a Christian'; Martyrdrom and the Beginning of 'Christian' identity; Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index of Subjects; Index of Passages
"'This collection of essays... [is] a very significant collection of material at the cutting edge of several aspects of current scholarship. Some of these essays are unpublished, others are available in very obscure publications and those that are more accessible are heavily cited enough to give the book immediate recognition as of great importance.' - John Barclay, University of Glasgow"  Be the first to write a customer review
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