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Destroyer of the Gods: Early Christian Distinctiveness in the Roman World is unavailable, but you can change that!

"Silly," "stupid," "irrational," "simple." "Wicked," "hateful," "obstinate," "anti-social." "Extravagant," "perverse." The Roman world rendered harsh judgments upon early Christianity—including branding Christianity "new." Novelty was no Roman religious virtue. Nevertheless, as Larry W. Hurtado shows in Destroyer of the gods, Christianity thrived despite its new and distinctive features and...

Furthermore, well into the second century AD and beyond, there continued to be circles of early Christianity that were made up of Jews. What is sometimes referred to as “Jewish Christianity” in that sense was for a long while a noteworthy part of the larger Jesus-movement.69 Especially in the earliest years of the young movement that became “Christianity,” therefore, I repeat that we should not imagine two fully distinguishable religions called “Judaism” and “Christianity.” Instead, in this very
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