Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780199262892)

'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.

Author: Judith Lieu,Judith M. Lieu,J. M. Lieu
ISBN-10: 0199262896
ISBN-13: 9780199262892
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Language: English
Published: 07/29/2004
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 8.72h x 5.84w x 1.03d