Preface
Abbreviations
1. Introduction: Neither Jew nor Greek? Constructing Early Christianity
Part I: Disappearing Boundaries
2. 'The Parting of the Ways': Theological Construct or Historical Reality?
3. Do God-fearers make Good Christians?
4. The Race of the God-Fearers
5. Ignoring the Competition
Part II. Women and Conversion in Judaism and Christianity
6. The 'Attraction of Women' in/to Early Judaism and Christianity: Gender and the Politics of Conversion
7. Circumcision, Women and Salvation
Part III: Theology and Scripture in Early Christian Views of Judaism
8. History and Theology in Christian Views of Judaism
9. Accusations of Jewish persecution in Early Christian Sources
10. Reading in Canon and Community: Deut. 21.22-23, A Test Case for Dialogue
Part IV: The Shaping of Early 'Christian' Identity
11. The Forging of Christian Identity and the Letter to Diognetus
12. The New Testament and Early Christianity
13. 'I am a Christian': Martyrdom and the Beginning of Christian Identity
Bibliography
General Index
Index of Modern Authors

Judith M. Lieu is Lady Margaret's Professor of Divinity at the University of Cambridge, UK.

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.
Lieu particularly examines the way that literary texts presented early Christianity. She combines this with interdisciplinary historical investigation and interaction with scholarship on Judaism in late Antiquity and on the Graeco-Roman world.The result is a highly significant contribution to 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.