Neither Jew Nor Greek?
Subtitle: Constructing Early Christianity (Studies of the New Testament and Its World Series)
Publisher: T. & T. Clark Publishers
Published: April 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 263
ISBN-13: 9780567089090
Subjects: Christian theology; Religion - Biblical Studies; Primitive and early church, ca; Religion; Biblical Studies - General; Church history; Christianity - History - General; Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600; Bible - Study - General
Description: "In this study, 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 on her subject, she pays close attention to the way that literary texts presented early Christianity, combining this with interdisciplinary historical investigation and interaction with the most recent work on Judaism in late antiquity and the Graeco-Roman world." "The book addresses key questions in current New Testament scholarship, including the formation of early Christian identity, how best to describe and understand the processes by which the Christian movement became separate from its Jewish origins, the role of women in Judaism and early Christianity, and the part which martyrdom played in the construction of Christian identity."--BOOK JACKET.