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Issues of New Testament Anti-Judaism brings a fresh analysis to the
emerging conflicts between the earliest followers of Jesus of
Nazareth and the leaders of the Jewish communities in Palestine and
its environs. Roger S. Evans reveals that embedded in many of the
confrontations between Jesus and Jewish leaders is Jesus'
self-identification as the "Son of Man." It is this
self-identification that further ignites the already simmering
conflicts, and the final charge of blasphemy. In the book of Acts
and in the canonical Epistles we hear the early Christians accusing
the Jewish leaders and people of deicide, but it is also in these
documents that the Christian authors continue to hope for and
believe that the Jewish people are still part of God's people.
Finally, Evans reminds readers that, according to the authors of
the New Testament, it was always God's plan to send Jesus to die
for the sins of his people and the world. This new analysis is
intended to inspire both Christians and Jewish people of the
twenty-first century to reevaluate how they respond to each other.
Sex and Salvation explores the growth and development of virginity
in the cultural contexts of the ancient church. An examination of
Greek, Roman, and Jewish literature, which speaks to the issues of
virginity, reveals that the Christian understanding of life-long
virginity was a foreign concept to the peoples and cultures of the
ancient Mediterranean world. In a time when families and
authorities demanded that women follow the ancient tradition of
marriage and motherhood, a growing number of important Christian
authors were calling for a life free from the "dangerous" sexual
passions that beset all women. In Sex and Salvation, author Roger
Steven Evans gathers over thirty documents from early Catholic,
pseudopigraphical and heterodox letters, epistles, apologies, and
canon law that trace the importance of virginity in early
Christianity. Evans contends that the sexual ethic established by
early Christian authors has reverberated throughout the intervening
centuries, and is still being felt in the post modern world of the
21st century.
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