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The third and final installment of James Dunn’s magisterial history of Christian origins through 190 AD, Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity covers the period after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD through the second century, when the still-new Jesus movement firmed up its distinctive identity markers and the structures on which it would establish its growing appeal in the following...

the name (Christianoi) was almost certainly coined by the Roman authorities in Antioch, on the analogy of Herodians (Hērōdianoi) or Caesarians, the party of Caesar, or possibly members of Caesar’s household (Kaisarianoi). The ‘Christians’ were so called because they were perceived to be partisans of ‘Christ’, followers of ‘Christ’, members of the Christ-party.41 Those so referred to would not be ‘Christians’ as distinct from Jews. Rather, the term would refer to Jewish synagogue communities or sub-groups

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