Neither Jew Nor Greek: A Contested Identity (Christianity in the Making, Volume 3) (Christianity in the Making, 3) - Softcover

Dunn, James D G

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0802878016 ISBN 13: 9780802878014

Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2015

Synopsis

The third and final installment of James Dunn's magisterial history of Christian origins through 190 C.E., Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity covers the period after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. through the second century, when the still-new Jesus movement firmed up its distinctive identity markers and the structures on which it would establish its growing appeal in the following decades and centuries.
 
Dunn examines in depth the major factors that shaped first-generation Christianity and beyond, exploring the parting of the ways between Christianity and Judaism, the Hellenization of Christianity, and responses to Gnosticism. He mines all the first- and second-century sources, including the New Testament Gospels, New Testament apocrypha, and such church fathers as Ignatius, Justin Martyr, and Irenaeus, showing how the Jesus tradition and the figures of James, Paul, Peter, and John were still esteemed influences but were also the subject of intense controversy as the early church wrestled with its evolving identity.
 
Comprehensively covering an important, complex era in Christianity that is often overlooked, this volume is a landmark contribution to the field.

About this title

About the Author

James D. G. Dunn (1939-2020) was a renowned New Testament scholar and the longtime Lightfoot Professor of Divinity at Durham University. His numerous books include The Theology of Paul the Apostle, Jesus according to the New Testament, and the magisterial Christianity in the Making trilogy.

Edition details

• Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2015
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0802878016
• ISBN 13: 9780802878014
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 960