Judaistic Christianity: A Course of Lectures (Cambridge Library Collection - Biblical Studies) - Softcover

Hort, Fenton John Anthony

Softcover

ISBN 10: 110800752X ISBN 13: 9781108007528

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2009

Synopsis

In these lectures published posthumously in 1894, the biblical scholar and theologian Fenton John Anthony Hort draws on his work on the early Christian Church and its transition from Judaism in the Apostolic period. Throughout his career, Hort devoted himself to the study of Christian history and to the joint editorship of a critical edition of the New Testament in Greek and, later, modern English. In his last years teaching at Cambridge University, his efforts centred on proving a first-century dating for the New Testament books, and researching the history and development of the church as described in them. The lectures in this volume respond to arguments of Hort's contemporaries, notably F. C. Baur and the Tübingen school, for a second-century dating. To support his case, Hort examines the relationship between Judaistic, Gentile and Pauline Christianity and analyses New Testament accounts of Christ's attitude to the Jewish faith.

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Book Description

F. J. A. Hort's lectures on Judaistic Christianity, first published in 1894, argue for a first-century transitional period between the two faiths. Hort used New Testament evidence to probe the relationship between Judaism and Christianity in the Apostolic period and proposed a new understanding of the synthesis of beliefs.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 110800752X
• ISBN 13: 9781108007528
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 240