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.