The Origin of Heresy: A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity (2012 Royalty), book

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The Origin of Heresy: A History of Discourse in Second Temple Judaism and Early Christianity (2012) is a book by Robert M. Royalty.

Abstract

"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 rhetoric against ‘heretics,’ called heresiology. Here, author Robert Royalty argues, one finds the origin of what comes to be labelled ‘heresy’ in the second century. In other words, there was such as thing as ‘heresy’ in ancient Jewish and Christian discourse before it was called ‘heresy.’ And by the end of the first century, the notion of heresy was integral to the political positioning of the early orthodox Christian party within the Roman Empire and the range of other Christian communities. This book is an original contribution to the field of Early Christian studies. Recent treatments of the origins of heresy and Christian identity have focused on the second century rather than on the earlier texts including the New Testament. The book further makes a methodological contribution by blurring the line between New Testament Studies and Early Christian studies, employing ideological and post-colonial critical methods."--Publisher description.

Editions and translations

Published in London, England: Routledge, 2012 (Routledge Studies in Religion, 18).

Table of contents

The origin of heresy -- The rhetoric of difference in Israel -- Reform and revolution in the Roman Empire: John the Baptist and the disciples of Jesus -- Paul and the rhetoric of difference -- The Christian Gospels as narratives of exclusion -- Policing the boundaries: the politics of heresiology -- The politics of orthodoxy -- Conclusions.

External links

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