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Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World

By Judith M. Lieu

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press, USA
Year
2004
ISBN
0199262896, 9780199262892, 9780199291427
LCC
BR166 .L54 2004
Open Library ID
OL22588059M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
3 MB (3573766 bytes)
Pages
381\381
Topic
Religion Orthodoxy
Time added
2010-05-31 00:48:14
Религиоведение;Религиоведение христианства;История

Description

'I am a Christian' is the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts and, no doubt, of many others; but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book is a highly original exploration of how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. Contemporary discussions of identity provide the background to a careful study of early Christian texts from the first two centuries. Judith Lieu shows that there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive.

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