Explorations in the Second Christian Century

Erscheinungsjahr 2025
ISBN: 978-90-04-71567-7
Verlag: World Bank Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 120, 482 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 830 g

Reihe: Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity

As allegiance to Jesus Christ spread across the Roman Empire in the second century, writings, practices, and ideas erupted in a creative maelstrom. Many of the patterns of practice and belief that later become normative emerged, in the midst of debate and argument with neighbours who shared or who rejected that allegiance. Authoritative texts, principles of argument, attitudes to received authority, the demands of allegiance in the face of opposition, identifying who belonged and who did not, all demanded attention. These essays explore those divergent voices, and the no-less diverse and lively debates they have inspired in recent scholarship.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Lieu, Judith M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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1 Introduction: Texts and Communities in the Early Christian Second Century World

2 Jews, Christians and ‘Pagans’ in Conflict

3 The Audience of Apologetics: the Problem of the Martyr Acts

4 ‘Their Wives Are as Chaste as Virgins, Their Daughters Modest’: the Role of Women in Early Christian Apologetics

5 Identity Games in Early Christian Texts: the Letter to Diognetus

6 The Multiple Personalities of Celsus’ Jew

7 The Early Christian Reception of the Legend of the Greek Translation of the Scriptures

8 Jewish Teachers in Rome?

9 Household and Family in Diaspora Judaism

10 Modelling the Second Century as the Age of the Laboratory

11 The ‘Parting of the Ways’: Heuristic Model and/or Metaphor?

12 Introduction: Recovering Marcion and His Place in the Shaping of Second Century Christianity

13 From Us but Not of Us? Moving the Boundaries of the Community

14 Heresy and Scripture

15 Newness in Early Christian Thought

16 The Marcionite Option

17 Marcion, the Writings of Israel, and the Origins of the ‘New Testament’

18 Marcion and the New Testament

19 Marcion and the Synoptic Problem

20 Marcion and the Corruption of Paul’s Gospel

21 Marcion and the Canonical Paul

22 ‘As Much My Apostle as Christ Is Mine’: the Dispute over Paul between Tertullian and Marcion

23 Marcion, Paul, and the Jews

24 Pauline Soteriology in Early Marcionite Thought

25 Between Marcion and Mani: Open Questions for a Continuing Conversation

Bibliography

Index of Passages

Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Judith M. Lieu, FBA, DTheol (h.c.) is Lady Margaret's Professor Emerita at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. She has published widely on the emergence of a Christian identity in relationship to Jews and pagans in the second century, on heresy and Marcion, as well as on the Johannine literature.