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  • Publisher:
    Cambridge University Press
    Publication date:
    December 2011
    November 2011
    ISBN:
    9781139003438
    9781107012998
    9781107436749
    DOI:
    https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139003438
    Dimensions:
    (228 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.75kg, 392 Pages
    Dimensions:
    (229 x 152 mm)
    Weight & Pages:
    0.52kg, 388 Pages
    • Subjects:
    Biblical Studies - New Testament, Religion, Church History
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    Subjects:
    Biblical Studies - New Testament, Religion, Church History
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    What terms would early Christians have used to address one another? In the first book-length study on this topic, Paul Trebilco investigates the origin, use and function of seven key self-designations: 'brothers and sisters', 'believers', 'saints', 'the assembly', 'disciples', 'the Way', and 'Christian'. In doing so, he discovers what they reveal about the identity, self-understanding and character of the early Christian movement. This study sheds light on the theology of particular New Testament authors and on the relationship of early Christian authors and communities to the Old Testament and to the wider context of the Greco-Roman world. Trebilco's writing is informed by other work in the area of sociolinguistics on the development of self-designations and labels and provides a fascinating insight into this often neglected topic.

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    'Trebilco has written a splendid book, with a clear structured and sustained argument … This study will be widely cited, and has added valuable insights about early Christian self-understanding.'

    Source: The Expository Times

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