MARC Record from marc_columbia

LEADER: 03553cam a2200361Ia 4500
001 11716558
005 20160420172524.0
008 150206s2016 enk b 001 0 eng d
020 $a0567658813
020 $a9780567658814
024 $a99965894049
035 $a(OCoLC)ocn902916441
035 $a(OCoLC)902916441
035 $a(NNC)11716558
040 $aYDXCP$beng$cYDXCP$dOCLCQ$dWIO$dOCLCF$dOXF$dDTM$dOCLCQ
050 4 $aBR162.3$b.L54 2016
100 1 $aLieu, Judith.
245 10 $aNeither Jew nor Greek? :$bconstructing early Christianity /$cJudith Lieu.
250 $a2nd ed.
260 $aLondon :$bBloomsbury,$c2016.
300 $ax, 271 pages ;$c24 cm.
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$bnc$2rdacarrier
490 1 $aCornerstones
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 244-266) and indexes.
505 0 $aNeither Jew nor Greek : a retrospect -- 1. Introduction: Neither Jew nor Greek? Constructing early Christianity -- Part I. Disappearing Boundaries : -- 2. 'The parting of the ways': theological construct or historical reality? -- 3. Do God-fearers make good Christians? -- 4. The race of the God-fearers -- 5. Ignoring the competition -- Part II. Women and Conversion in Judaism and Christianity : -- 6. The 'attraction of women' in/to early Judaism and Christianity: gender and the politics of conversion -- 7. Circumcision, women, and salvation -- Part III. Theology and Scripture in Early Christian Views of Judaism : -- 8. History and theology in Christian views of Judaism -- 9. Accusations of Jewish persecution in early Christian sources and particular reference to Justin Martyr and the Martyrdom of Polycarp -- 10. Reading in canon and community: Deut. 21.22-23, a test case for dialogue -- Part IV. The Shaping of Early 'Christian' Identity : -- 11. The forging of Christian identity and the Letter to Diognetus -- 12. The New Testament and early Christian identity -- 13. 'I am a Christian': martyrdom and the beginning of 'Christian' identity.
520 $aA ground-breaking study in the formation of early Christian identity, by one of the world's leading scholars. In Neither Jew Nor Greek, 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. Lieu particularly examines the way that literary texts presented early Christianity. She combines this with interdisciplinary historical investigation and interaction with scholarship on Judaism in late Antiquity and on the Graeco-Roman world. The result is a highly significant contribution to four of the key questions in current New Testament scholarship: how did early Christian identity come to be formed? How should we best describe and understand the processes by which the Christian movement became separate from its Jewish origins? Was there anything special or different about the way women entered Judaism and early Christianity? How did martyrdom contribute to the construction of early Christian identity? The chapters in this volume have become classics in the study of the New Testament and for this Cornerstones edition Lieu provides a new introduction placing them within the academic debate as it is now.
650 0 $aChurch history$yPrimitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
650 7 $aChurch history$xPrimitive and early church.$2fast$0(OCoLC)fst01710945
648 7 $a30 - 600$2fast
830 0 $aCornerstones (T & T Clark)
852 00 $buts$hBR162.3$i.L54 2016g