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

[A] wonderfully learned volume, Judith Lieu's capacity to hold together biblical, Jewish and patrisitc material commands respect, and she is an authority on the borderland between early Christianity and Judaism

• PrefaceAbbreviations1. Introduction: Neither Jew nor Greek? Constructing Early ChristianityPart I: Disappearing Boundaries2. 'The Parting of the Ways': Theological Construct or Historical Reality?3. Do God-fearers make Good Christians?4. The Race of the God-Fearers5. Ignoring the CompetitionPart II. Women and Conversion in Judaism and Christianity6. The 'Attraction of Women' in/to Early Judaism and Christianity: Gender and the Politics of Conversion7. Circumcision, Women and SalvationPart III: Theology and Scripture in Early Christian Views of Judaism8. History and Theology in Christian Views of Judaism9. Accusations of Jewish persecution in Early Christian Sources10. Reading in Canon and Community: Deut. 21.22-23, A Test Case for DialoguePart IV: The Shaping of Early 'Christian' Identity11. The Forging of Christian Identity and the Letter to Diognetus12. The New Testament and Early Christianity13. 'I am a Christian': Martyrdom and the Beginning of Christian IdentityBibliographyGeneral IndexIndex of Modern Authors

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

[A] wonderfully learned volume, Judith Lieu's capacity to hold together biblical, Jewish and patrisitc material commands respect, and she is an authority on the borderland between early Christianity and Judaism

• PrefaceAbbreviations1. Introduction: Neither Jew nor Greek? Constructing Early ChristianityPart I: Disappearing Boundaries2. 'The Parting of the Ways': Theological Construct or Historical Reality?3. Do God-fearers make Good Christians?4. The Race of the God-Fearers5. Ignoring the CompetitionPart II. Women and Conversion in Judaism and Christianity6. The 'Attraction of Women' in/to Early Judaism and Christianity: Gender and the Politics of Conversion7. Circumcision, Women and SalvationPart III: Theology and Scripture in Early Christian Views of Judaism8. History and Theology in Christian Views of Judaism9. Accusations of Jewish persecution in Early Christian Sources10. Reading in Canon and Community: Deut. 21.22-23, A Test Case for DialoguePart IV: The Shaping of Early 'Christian' Identity11. The Forging of Christian Identity and the Letter to Diognetus12. The New Testament and Early Christianity13. 'I am a Christian': Martyrdom and the Beginning of Christian IdentityBibliographyGeneral IndexIndex of Modern Authors