Jesus and the People of God - Reconfiguring Ethnic Identity (Hardcover)

How did the Jesus movement-a messianic sectarian version of Palestinian Judaism-transcend its Judaean origins and ultimately establish itself in the Roman East as the multi-ethnic socio-religious experiment we know as early Christianity? In this major work, Hellerman, drawing upon his background as a social historian, proposes that a clue to the success of the Christian movement lay in Jesus' own conception of the people of God, and in how he reconfigured its identity from that of ethnos to that of family. He conceived the social identity of the people of God as a surrogate family or kinship group, a social entity based not on common ancestry but on a shared commitment to his kingdom programme. He broke down the boundaries of ethnic Judaism and provided an ideological foundation and symbolic framework for the wider expansion of the Jesus movement.

General

Imprint:	Sheffield Phoenix Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	New Testament Monographs, No. 21
Release date:	September 2007
First published:	September 2007
Authors:	Joseph H. Hellerman
Dimensions:	156 x 234 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	396
ISBN-13:	978-1-906055-21-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Christianity > Early Church Books > Religion & Spirituality > Christianity > Early Church Books > Christianity > Early Church
LSN:	1-906055-21-1
Barcode:	9781906055219

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