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This collection of essays deals with the attitude of Christians of the first and second centuries C.E. toward both (Jewish) unbelievers and semi-believers, fellow-Christians who are, in their opinion, people who do not adhere to a pure faith in Jesus Christ. It focuses on two New Testament writings (the Gospel of John and the Letter of Jude) and on the second century work The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs. It explains the texts in their historical and cultural environment, and serves to clarify the writers’ negative feelings about paganism, Judaism, and Christian heresies. The analyses here produce a number of new and surprising results, and will appeal to New Testament scholars and students, clergymen, and all those interested in the beginnings of Christianity and in the relationship between orthodox Christians, on the one hand, and Jews, non-Jews, and non-orthodox fellow-Christians, on the other.

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Harm W. Hollander was a Lecturer in New Testament Studies and Hellenistic Greek at the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, from 1991 until his retirement in 2012. His academic research interests are the interpretation of the New Testament and other early-Christian writings, especially The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs, a Jewish-Christian document from the second century C.E. He has authored a full commentary on 1 Corinthians (three volumes; 1996-2007), and many articles on New Testament passages, which have been published in New Testament Studies, Novum Testamentum, Journal for the Study of the New Testament, Expository Times, and Bible Translator, among others. In addition, he is also the author of the books Joseph as an Ethical Model in the Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs (1981) and The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs: A Commentary (with Marinus de Jonge, 1985).

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