Jewish and Christian self-definition / 
edited by E.P. Sanders. 
 - London, UK :  SCM Press,  1980-82. 
 - 3 v. ;  hbk ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/>v. 1. The shaping of Christianity in the second and third centuries / edited by E.P. Sanders.<br/><br/>The problem of self-definition: from sect to church / R.A. Markus -- The social setting of second century Christianity /  Robert M. Grant -- Theological norms and social perspectives in igantius of Antioch / Willoiam R Schoedel -- The two Sees of peter / Jaroslav Pelikan -- The self-definition of Christianity in relation to later Platonism / A. Hilary Armstrong -- The Christians as the Romans (and Greeks) saw them / Robert L. Wilken -- Why the Church rejected Gnosticism / George W. MacRae -- Normative self-definition in Gnosticism / Jacques E. Menard -- Jewish elements in Gnosticismand the development of Gnostic self-definition / Birger A. Pearson -- The successors of pre-70 Jerusalem: a critical evaluation of the Pella-Tradition / Gerd Ludemann -- Theological and non-theological motives in Irenaeus's refutation of the Gnostics / Gerard Vallee -- The past in Clement of Alexandria / Raoul Mortley -- The meaning of dogma in Origen / P.M. O'Clerigh. v. 2. Aspects of Judaism in the Graeco-Roman period / edited by E.P. Sanders, with A.I. Baumgarten and Alan Mendelson - v. 3. Self-definition in the Graeco-Roman world / edited by Ben F. Meyer and E.P. Sanders. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>334008182 (v. 1) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.<br/>Judaism--History--Talmudic period, 10-425.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>270.1/JEW