Sinners : Jesus and his earliest followers /

Carey, Greg, 1965-,

Sinners : Jesus and his earliest followers / [print] Greg Carey. - Waco, Texas : Baylor University Press, (c)2009. - xiii, 221 pages ; 23 cm.



"How do you know she's a (sinner)?" -- Jesus, friend of sinners -- Jesus and impurity -- We were deadbeats, me and Paul -- Jesus, the convicted seditionist -- Interlude : the sinless Jesus? -- The scandal(s) of the cross -- Flirting with respectability -- Persecuted.

This book traces several of the ways in which Jesus and his followers stepped across normal lines of propriety and elicited responses ranging from suspicion to outright resistance. [Preface]



9781602581463

2008029720

GBA8D9111 bnb

014852632 Uk


Jesus Christ--Character.
Jesus Christ--Friends and associates.


Sin--Christianity--History of doctrines--Early church, ca. 30-600.

BT304.C273.C374 2009 BT304