Explorations in the Second Christian Century: Texts, Groups, Ideas, Voices

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Part 1 Texts and Communities
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Introduction: Texts and Communities in the Early Christian Second Century World
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Jews, Christians and ‘Pagans’ in Conflict
	3 The Audience of Apologetics: The Problem of the Martyr Acts
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‘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
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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?
Part 2
Marcion in Ancient and Modern Contexts
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Introduction: Recovering Marcion and His Place in the Shaping of Second Century Christianity
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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
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Marcion and the Synoptic Problem
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Marcion and the Corruption of Paul’s Gospel
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Marcion and the Canonical Paul
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‘As Much My Apostle as Christ Is Mine’: The Dispute over Paul between Tertullian and Marcion
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Marcion, Paul, and the Jews
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Pauline Soteriology in Early Marcionite Thought
	25 Between Marcion and Mani: Open Questions for a Continuing Conversation
Bibliography
Index of Ancient Authors and Sources
Index of Subjects