Neither Jew nor Greek: A Contested Identity (Biblia.com)

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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...

Peter was no more successful. Justin may indicate a willingness for continued dialogue, and Irenaeus express full respect, but it was the Ignatiuses and the Melitos who set the pathway for the future. A rule of faith which held together Jewish believers in Jesus and Gentile Christians was never achieved. And the loss of regard for Christianity’s Jewishness remains a feature of Christianity to this day. The resolution to the contest over Christianity’s identity was already clearly

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