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Zusatztext Review from previous edition The book will! without a doubt! become a key one in the discussion of early Christian identity! but its rich exploration into Jewish identity makes it a serious contribution to that field as well ... Where Lieu's work often differs from much of the contemporary debate is the consistent clarity with which she sees the other side of the evdience ... This positive work will help focus much of the future debate. Informationen zum Autor Judith M. Lieu is Professor of New Testament Studies, King's College London. Klappentext '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. Zusammenfassung Presents an 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. This book shows that there were similarities and differences in the ways Jews and others were thinking about themselves, and asks what made early Christianity distinctive. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction: The Emergence of Christian Identity 2: Text and Identity 3: History, Memory, and the Invention of Tradition 4: Boundaries 5: The Grammar of Practice 6: Embodiment and Gender 7: Space and Place 8: The Christian Race 9: `The Other' 10: Made Not Born: Conclusions
