Heterodoxy Within Second-Temple Judaism and Sectarian Diversity Within the Early Church

A Correlative Study

• Author(s): Peter J. Russell,
• Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
• Pages: 467
• ISBN_10: 0773449388
  ISBN_13: 9780773449381
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Religion / Christianity / History , Religion / Judaism / General , Religion / Judaism / History , Religion / Christianity / General , Religion / Christian Church / History ,

Description:... This work overturns previously accepted theories about the rise of the firstcentury Church by arguing that it maintained a religious culture of diversity because of its roots in Judaism.