"In The Origin and Meaning of Ekklēsia in the Early Jesus Movement, Ralph J. Korner explores the ideological implications of Christ-follower associations self-designating collectively as ekklēsiai. Politically, Korner's inscriptional research suggests that an association named e…
This volume studies the ways modern research has tried to detect traces of Docetism in ancient sources, including the gospels and the Johannine epistles and several second-century authors. As a concept, Docetism is often used in scholarly literature for denoting loosely connecte…
Neither Jew nor Greek?: constructing early Christianity
by Lieu, Judith
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A ground-breaking study in the formation of early Christian identity, by one of the world's leading scholars. In Neither Jew Nor Greek, Judith Lieu explores the formation and shaping of early Christian identity within Judaism and within the wider Graeco-Roman world in the period…
Jewish believers in Jesus: the early centuries
Focusing on the role of the Jewish believers in the first five centuries C.E., this important study re-examines some of the most foundational questions for our understanding of the formation of the early church. Who were the Jewish believers, and how did they understand themselv…
Many believe that the Gospel stories of Jesus are based on eyewitness testimony and are therefore historically reliable. Now, for the first time, a scholar of the New Testament, New York Times bestselling author Bart D. Ehrman (Misquoting Jesus; and Jesus, Interrupted), surveys …
Chronologisch fortschreitende Darstellung der historischen Entwicklung des frühen Christentums, die nach dem Tod Jesu im Jahr 30 als innerjüdische Erneuerungsbewegung beginnt und 100 Jahre später mit der Etablierung als eigenständige Religion mit festen Strukturen endet. Nach Ei…
"Analyzes the development of Voegelin's thought regarding the origins of Christianity in the person of Jesus, the development of the church in the works of Paul, and the relationship between an immanent institutional order symbolizing the divine presence and the struggle for soc…
"Pliny, the governor of Bithynia...records an important practice among Christian groups in Bithynia: enslaved persons participated in the religious practices of the community and even held specific titles....Enslaved Leadership in Early Christianity is neither a celebration of e…