Neither Jew nor Greek?: Constructing Early Christianity (Second Edition)

by Judith M. Lieu

Publisher:

Bloomsbury

, 2016

Overview

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 before 200 C.E. Examine the way that literary texts presented early Christianity and combine this with interdisciplinary historical investigation and interaction with scholarship on Judaism in late Antiquity and on the Graeco-Roman world. This work will give you insight into four of the key questions in current New Testament scholarship: how did early Christian identity come to be formed? How should we best describe and understand the processes by which the Christian movement became separate from its Jewish origins? Was there anything special or different about the way women entered Judaism and early Christianity? How did martyrdom contribute to the construction of early Christian identity? The chapters in this volume have become classics in the study of the New Testament and for this Cornerstones edition Lieu provides a new introduction placing them within the academic debate as it is now.

Product Details

• Title: Neither Jew nor Greek?: Constructing Early Christianity (Second Edition)
• Author: Judith M. Lieu
• Edition: Second Edition
• Series: The Cornerstones Series
• Publisher: Bloomsbury
• Print Publication Date: 2016
• Logos Release Date: 2019
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
• Subject: Church history › Primitive and early Church, ca. 30-600
• ISBNs: 9780567089090, 9780567658814, 9780567658821, 9780567083265, 0567089096, 0567658813, 0567658821, 0567083268
• Resource ID: LLS:NEITHRJEWGRK2ED
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2025-06-27T23:14:00Z

About Judith M. Lieu

Judith M. Lieu, studied at Durham and Birmingham Universities and has taught at The Queen's College, Birmingham, King's College London (where she was Professor of New Testament Studies, 1999-2006), and Macquarie University, Sydney. She is on the editorial board of a number of journals and series and was previously Editor of New Testament Studies and was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2014. Professor Lieu's current research is on letters in Early Christianity, exploring their changing function through their reception and embedding in new contexts, as well as the production of letter-like writings.