Explorations in the Second Christian Century

Judith M. Lieu, FBA, DTheol (h.c.) is Lady Margaret's Professor Emerita at the University of Cambridge and Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge. She has published widely on the emergence of a Christian identity in relationship to Jews and pagans in the second century, on heresy and Marcion, as well as on the Johannine literature.

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1 Introduction: Texts and Communities in the Early Christian Second Century World



2 Jews, Christians and ‘Pagans’ in Conflict



3 The Audience of Apologetics: the Problem of the Martyr Acts



4 ‘Their Wives Are as Chaste as Virgins, Their Daughters Modest’: the Role of Women in Early Christian Apologetics



5 Identity Games in Early Christian Texts: the Letter to Diognetus



6 The Multiple Personalities of Celsus’ Jew



7 The Early Christian Reception of the Legend of the Greek Translation of the Scriptures



8 Jewish Teachers in Rome?



9 Household and Family in Diaspora Judaism



10 Modelling the Second Century as the Age of the Laboratory



11 The ‘Parting of the Ways’: Heuristic Model and/or Metaphor?



12 Introduction: Recovering Marcion and His Place in the Shaping of Second Century Christianity



13 From Us but Not of Us? Moving the Boundaries of the Community



14 Heresy and Scripture



15 Newness in Early Christian Thought



16 The Marcionite Option



17 Marcion, the Writings of Israel, and the Origins of the ‘New Testament’



18 Marcion and the New Testament



19 Marcion and the Synoptic Problem



20 Marcion and the Corruption of Paul’s Gospel



21 Marcion and the Canonical Paul



22 ‘As Much My Apostle as Christ Is Mine’: the Dispute over Paul between Tertullian and Marcion



23 Marcion, Paul, and the Jews



24 Pauline Soteriology in Early Marcionite Thought



25 Between Marcion and Mani: Open Questions for a Continuing Conversation

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Index of Passages

Index of Subjects