Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World
MIA KARTS BOOKS
Book details
- Author
- Judith M. Lieu
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- Christianity
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780199262892
- ISBN-10
- 0199262896
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World
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ISBN: 0199262896
Author: Lieu, Judith M.
Condition: New
'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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