Neither Jew Nor Greek?: Constructing Early Christianity (Academic Paperback) - Softcover

Lieu, Judith

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9780567083265: Neither Jew Nor Greek?: Constructing Early Christianity (Academic Paperback)

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ISBN 10: 0567083268 ISBN 13: 9780567083265

Publisher: Bloomsbury T&T Clark, 2005

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In this book, 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. Bringing to bear the latest analytical methods, she particularly examines the way that literary texts presented early Christianity. She combines this with interdisciplinary historical investigation and interaction with the most recent work on Judaism in late Antiquity and on the Graeco-Roman world. The result is a very significant contribution in 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? "This collection of essays was elicited by the editors of the series as marking a very significant collection of material at the cutting edge of several aspects of current scholarship. Some of these essays are unpublished, others are available in very obscure publications and those that are more accessible are heavily cited enough to give the book immediate recognition as of great importance." John Barclay, University of Glasgow

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About the Author:

Judith M. Lieu is Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.

Review:

'[A] wonderfully learned volume Judith Lieu's capacity to hold together biblical, Jewish and patristic material commands respect, and she is an authority on the borderland between early Christianity and Judaism.' (Stuart G. Hall, Theology)

'Invaluable not only for its insightful reflection on both ancient evidence and history of scholarship but also, and perhaps more importantly, because it denounces dangerous misconceptions and, through self-criticism, eventually attempts to (re-)create a lucid and balanced interfaith dialogue.' Sabrina Inowlocki, The Society of Biblical Literature, 2004

"For both its content and scholarly method, Neither Jew nor Greek is a must for any theological library." Mary Coloe, Australian Biblical Review, 2004

'a helpful collection of essays' (Stephen Catto Themelios)

'Lieu's feeling that we cannot really construct early Christianity is everywhere clear.'
Jeremiah J. Harrelson, ANVIL, Vol 23, No. 3, 2006 (Jeremiah J. Harrelson, Oxford Anvil)

'a helpful collection of essays' (Sanford Lakoff Themelios)

'Lieu's feeling that we cannot really construct early Christianity is everywhere clear.'
Jeremiah J. Harrelson, ANVIL, Vol 23, No. 3, 2006 (Sanford Lakoff Anvil)

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