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.

• Publication and Copyright Information1 Introduction: Texts and Communities in the Early Christian Second Century World2 Jews, Christians and ‘Pagans’ in Conflict3 The Audience of Apologetics: the Problem of the Martyr Acts4 ‘Their Wives Are as Chaste as Virgins, Their Daughters Modest’: the Role of Women in Early Christian Apologetics5 Identity Games in Early Christian Texts: the Letter to Diognetus6 The Multiple Personalities of Celsus’ Jew7 The Early Christian Reception of the Legend of the Greek Translation of the Scriptures8 Jewish Teachers in Rome?9 Household and Family in Diaspora Judaism10 Modelling the Second Century as the Age of the Laboratory11 The ‘Parting of the Ways’: Heuristic Model and/or Metaphor?12 Introduction: Recovering Marcion and His Place in the Shaping of Second Century Christianity13 From Us but Not of Us? Moving the Boundaries of the Community14 Heresy and Scripture15 Newness in Early Christian Thought16 The Marcionite Option17 Marcion, the Writings of Israel, and the Origins of the ‘New Testament’18 Marcion and the New Testament19 Marcion and the Synoptic Problem20 Marcion and the Corruption of Paul’s Gospel21 Marcion and the Canonical Paul22 ‘As Much My Apostle as Christ Is Mine’: the Dispute over Paul between Tertullian and Marcion23 Marcion, Paul, and the Jews24 Pauline Soteriology in Early Marcionite Thought25 Between Marcion and Mani: Open Questions for a Continuing ConversationBibliographyIndex of PassagesIndex of Subjects