Browsing Electronic Theses and Dissertations by Subject "Jewish Studies"

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Continuity and Discontinuity: the Temple and Early Christian Identity

Wardle, Timothy Scott (2008-12-10)

<p>In Paul's first letter to the Corinthians, he asks the readers this question: "Do you not know that you are God's temple and that God's spirit dwells in you?" (1 Cor 3:16). Although Paul is the earliest Christian writer ...
Genealogy, Circumcision, and Conversion in Early Judaism and Christianity

Thiessen, Matthew (2010)

<p>In his important work, The Beginnings of Jewishness, Shaye J. D. Cohen has argued that what it meant to be a Jew underwent considerable revision during the second century B.C.E. While previously a Jew was defined in ...