Discipleship and Family Ties in Mark and Matthew (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780521465304)

From the very beginning, following the Christian way commonly generated tensions within families. Insiders and outsiders alike bear witness to the threat to household and family ties posed by a transfer of the believer's primary allegiance to Jesus. This study shows that the demand to subordinate family ties in response to the call of Jesus is quite intelligible in the context of beliefs and practices both in Judaism and in Greco-Roman philosophy of the first century. Such background is related to the Gospels of Mark and Matthew.

Author: Stephen C. Barton
ISBN-10: 0521465303
ISBN-13: 9780521465304
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 12/08/1994
Pages: 276
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.00lbs
Size: 8.80h x 5.71w x 0.84d