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Religions of Greece and Rome: Early Christianity

  1. Was there an early ‘Christianity’, or where there early ‘Christianities’? What other Gospel traditions existed early on beside the Synoptic Gospels? What distinguished these Gospels from the ‘Synoptic’ ones?
  2. How different was ‘early Christianity’ from contemporary Judaism? Would it be right to call ‘early Christianity’ an offshoot or a dialect of Judaism?
  3. How was Christianity organized? What were the consequencs of Christianization on existing family and social structures in the eastern Mediterranean? Did Christians stand out in the period of the Acts, or were they inconspicuous?

[Due Tuesday 5.vi.2007 Complete!]

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