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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789664403321

Autore

Slee Michelle

Titolo

The church in Antioch in the first century CE [[electronic resource] ] : communion and conflict / / Michelle Slee

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Sheffield Academic Press, 2003

ISBN

1-283-19705-7

9786613197054

0-567-35246-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Journal for the study of the New Testament. Supplement series ; ; 244

Library of New Testament studies

Disciplina

275.64/01

Soggetti

Lord's Supper - History - Early church, ca. 30-600

Church history - Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Gentiles in the New Testament

Antioch (Turkey) Church history

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-201) and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Gentiles in the early church and the conflict in Antioch : the evidence from Acts and Galatians -- pt. 2. The Didache -- pt. 3. The gospel of Matthew.

Sommario/riassunto

The book explores the problems faced by the church in Antioch in the mid-first century CE once the decision was taken to welcome Gentiles into the church. Slee argues that a particular problem was the celebration of the Eucharist, since some Jewish Christians felt that the table-fellowship this involved inevitably brought the risk of contamination (because of Gentile contact with idolatry). She suggests this was the subject debated at the Jerusalem conference described in Acts 15 and Galatians 2, and it was the eventual decision of the Antioch church to hold separate Eucharists that led to Pau