James Tunstead Burtchaell

From Synagogue to Church

Public Services and Offices in the Earliest Christian Communities

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This important work engages with a long historical debate: were the earliest Christians under the direction of ordained ministers, or under the influence of inspired laypeople?

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 396
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 1992
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 794g
• ISBN-13: 9780521418928
• ISBN-10: 0521418925
• Artikelnr.: 23302951

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. The Reformation: challenge to an old consensus
2. The nineteenth century: a new consensus is formulated
3. The early twentieth century: the consensus is disputed
4. The last fifty years: the consensus restated, rechallenged, reused
5. A search for a new hypothesis
6. Jewish community organization in the later Second Temple period
7. The officers of the synagogue
8. Community organization in the early Christian settlement
9. A conclusion
Index auctorum
Index locorum.