Judith Lieu

Neither Jew Nor Greek?

Constructing Early Christianity

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Produktbeschreibung

A ground-breaking study in the formation of early Christian identity, by one of the world's leading scholars.In Neither Jew Nor Greek, 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. Lieu particularly examines the way that literary texts presented early Christianity. She combines this with interdisciplinary historical investigation and interaction with scholarship on Judaism in late Antiquity and on the Graeco-Roman world.The result is a highly significant contribution to 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? How did martyrdom contribute to the construction of early Christian identity? The chapters in this volume have become classics in the study of the New Testament and for this Cornerstones edition Lieu provides a new introduction placing them within the academic debate as it is now.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• 2nd Revised edition
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9780567658814
• ISBN-10: 0567658813
• Artikelnr.: 43016704

Autorenporträt

Judith M. Lieu is Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface Abbreviations 1. Introduction: Neither Jew nor Greek? Constructing
Early Christianity Part I: Disappearing Boundaries 2. 'The 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 and 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: Deut.
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 Christianity 13. 'I am a
Christian': Martyrdom and the Beginning of Christian Identity Bibliography
General Index Index of Modern Authors