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The Origin of Heresy
A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity
Series: Routledge Studies in Religion
Heresy is a central concept in the formation of Orthodox Christianity. Where does this notion come from? This book traces the construction of the idea of ‘heresy’ in the rhetoric of ideological disagreements in Second Temple Jewish and early Christian texts and in the development of the polemical...
Published August 7th 2012 by Routledge