Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics by Markus Bockmuehl

Jewish Law in Gentile Churches: Halakhah and the Beginning of Christian Public Ethics

Markus Bockmuehl

314 pages • missing pub info (view editions)

nonfiction religion challenging informative reflective medium-paced
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Why did the early Christian church, with its many Gentile members, keep Old Testament commandments about sex and idolatry but disregard many others, like those about food or ritual purity? Did Christianity inherit its norms of moral reasoning from...

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