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'I am a Christian' was the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructe... » 

'I am a Christian' was the confession of the martyrs of early Christian texts but what did this confession mean, and how was early Christian identity constructed? This book explores how a sense of being 'a Christian', or of 'Christian identity', was shaped within the setting of the Jewish and Graeco-Roman world. «