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Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World

Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World

Lieu, Judith M.

Hardcover

LinguisticsJudaismGeneral Christianity

ISBN10: 0199262896
ISBN13: 9780199262892
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 29 2004
Pages: 384
Weight: 1.29
Height: 1.03 Width: 5.84 Depth: 8.72
Language: English
'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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