Jewish Ways of Following Jesus: Redrawing the Religious Map of Antiquity

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In this study, Edwin K. Broadhead's purpose is to gather the ancient evidence of Jewish Christianity and to reconsider its impact. He begins his investigation with the hypothesis that groups in antiquity who were characterized by Jewish ways of following Jesus may be vastly underrepresented, misrepresented and undervalued in the ancient sources and in modern scholarship. Giving a critical analysis of the evidence, the author suggests that Jewish Christianity endured as an historical entity in a variety of places, in different times and in diverse modes. If this is true, a new religious map of antiquity is required. Moreover, the author offers a revised context for the history of development of both Judaism and Christianity and for their relationship.


About the Author


Edwin K. Broadhead, Born 1955; 1977 B.A., Mississippi College; 1981 M. Div., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; 1986 Ph. D., Southern Baptist Theological Seminary; 1991 Dr. theol., University of Zurich; additional studies at Bern, Tubingen, Basel, and Oxford; Associate Professor at Berea College, Berea, Kentucky.