Judith Lieu on Textual Communities
The experience of Judaism from the mid-second century BCE demonstrates how the extension of the ability to interpret, or the emergence of different claimants to the right to interpret, could generate new groupings and self-identities.
Christian Identity in the Jewish and Graeco-Roman World
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