Christian Origins: An Account of the Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism

Rowland, Christopher

ISBN 10: 0281053669 / ISBN 13: 9780281053667

Published by SPCK, United Kingdom, 2002

About this Item

paperback, second edition, a very good tightly bound copy with clean and unmarked contents, xxvi + 451pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Christian Origins: An Account of the Setting and Character of the Most Important Messianic Sect of Judaism
• Publisher: SPCK, United Kingdom
• Publication Date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0281053669
• ISBN 13: 9780281053667
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket

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Synopsis

"Dr Rowland has written a splendid book. He has put together in manageable space a well-read and well-argued account of the beginnings of the Christian movement: a third of it on the Judaism of the first century, a third on Jesus, and a third on Paul and the development from messianic sect to Christian religion. If you are a student, here are the outlines of your New Testament essays, conveniently cut up into three- and four-page sections. If you are a clergyman or teacher, here are the results of all the years of scholarship since you graduated. If you are a professional, here are many insights and nuances which you can weigh with profit." Michael Goulder, Theology

About the Author

Prof. Christopher Rowland is Dean Ireland's Professor of the Exegesis of Holy Scripture, Queen's College Oxford and has recently completed a book to be published by Yale University Press on Blake and the Bible. He has previously written on the reception history of the Book of Revelation (with Judith Kovacs, 2004) and on radical Christian writings (with Andrew Bradstock, 2002). Dr. Jonathan Roberts is a lecturer in Romantic Literature at the University of Liverpool. He has recently published an introduction to Blake entitled William Blake's Poetry (Continuum, 2007), and is currently writing a longer work on concepts of religion and the human in the works of Blake and Wordsworth.