| Description |
1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover -- Half-title page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Note on the Text -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: Rethinking Earliest Christianity in Alexandria -- Bauer and His Critics -- Eusebius -- Theses and Roadmap -- The Nature of the Evidence -- Part I Beginnings -- 1 Foreshadowings: Philo of Alexandria -- Introduction -- Life and Work -- Select Teachings -- Philonic Practice -- Conclusion -- 2 The Jesus Movement Enters Alexandria -- Introduction -- The Arrival of Jesus Movement(s) in Alexandria |
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3 Apollos: The Earliest Known Alexandrian Follower of Jesu -- Introduction -- Name and Origins -- Apollos in 1 Corinthians -- Results -- Apollos in Acts -- Apollos's Significance for Alexandria -- 4 Factors Motivating Gentile Recruitment -- Introduction -- The First Pogrom -- The Massacre in 66 ce -- The Diaspora Revolt -- Conclusion -- 5 Crafting a Christian Identity: Barnabas and the Two Peters -- Introduction -- The epistle of barnabas -- Provenance -- Date and Literary Form -- Social History -- The Preaching of Peter -- Provenance -- Date -- Treatment of the Jews -- Social History |
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The apocalypse of peter -- Provenance -- Date -- Social History -- Conclusion -- Part II Early Christian Teachers and Movements in Alexandria -- 6 The Earliest Alexandrian Theologians: Basilides, Carpocrates, and Prodicus -- Introduction -- Relation to Judaism -- The Judean Lord -- Apostolic Authority -- The Witness of Celsus -- Ritual Distinctiveness -- Cultural Accommodation -- Strangers and Foreigners -- Martyrdom -- Transmigration -- Conclusion -- 7 Eugnostus and the Wisdom of Jesus Christ -- Introduction -- God and the God-Human -- Provenance -- Date -- Reception -- Conclusion |
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8 Julius Cassianus and Alexandrian Ascetic Culture -- Introduction -- Cassianus's Teaching -- The sentences of sextus -- The Testimony of Truth -- The gospel according to the egyptians -- The gospel of thomas -- Exegesis of the soul -- Conclusion -- 9 Valentinian and Marcionite Currents -- Introduction -- Valentinian Teaching in the Excerpts -- Alexandrian Tendencies -- Apelles -- Conclusion -- 10 The Naassene Preacher -- Introduction -- Literary Form -- Author -- Provenance -- Date -- Individual or Group? -- Ritual Practice -- Scriptural Practice -- Cosmopolitan Outlook -- View of God |
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Humanity -- View of Jesus -- Ethics and Salvation -- Conclusion -- Conclusion: The "Great Church" and the Many Schools of Alexandria -- Introduction -- The Great Church -- The Many Schools -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
"Alexandria was the epicenter of Hellenic learning in the ancient Mediterranean world, yet little is known about how Christianity emerged in the city. M. David Litwa employs the Nag Hammadi codices and early Christian writings to demonstrate how the earliest followers of Jesus navigated Jewish traditions and developed distinctive identities"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
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| SUBJECT |
Alexandria (Egypt) -- Church history
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
1009449532 |
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9781009449533 |
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9781009449571 |
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1009449575 |
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