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The emergence of God’s new people: The beginnings of Christianity reconsidered

Wolfgang Stegemann
HTS Teologiese Studies / Theological Studies | Vol 62, No 1 | a346 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/hts.v62i1.346 | © 2006 Wolfgang Stegemann | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 14 September 2006 | Published: 14 September 2006

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Wolfgang Stegemann, Augustana Hochschule, Germany

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The article deals with the problem of the Christian beginnings. Unlike many other scholars, the article does not defend the traditional metaphor which compares Judaism and Christianity to the relationship of mother and daughter. It also does not take for granted that ancient Judaism and Christianity can be viewed as religious. The category “religion” is a modern concept and therefore does not meet the ancient discourse. The article aims to argue that the emergence of Christianity could be better understood in terms of “ethnicity”. Another version of the article was published in Di storia dell' esegesi 21(2), 2004, 497-513.

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