Recovering Jewish-Christian Sects And Gospels
by Petri Luomanen /
2012 / English / PDF
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I launched the research on which this book is based at the end of the 1990s as my post-doctoral project at the Department of Biblical Studies of the University of Helsinki. Having published my doctoral thesis on the Gospel of Matthew, I had become intrigued by the question of the history of Jewish Christianity after the completion of the synoptic gospels. Originally, my plan was to write a book which would trace the history of JewishChristianity frompre-synoptic times through Matthew and other New Testament material to post-synoptic apocryphal sources and references by the church fathers. Because I hadwrestledwith the New Testament material formy doctoral thesis for some time, I wanted getmy hands on some other sources and decided to start with the analysis of the church fathers and their references.
