Seminal essays from a leading New Testament scholar For the past twenty years, John Barclay has researched and written on the social history of early Christiani

The early church was made up of a myriad of local churches, each with different settings, problems and ideas regarding how its community should be structured. W

Applies the insights of contemporary diaspora studies to address much-debated questions about Paul's identity as a diaspora Jew, his complicated relationship wi

It is a commonplace today that Paul was a Jew of the Hellenistic Diaspora, but how does that observation help us to understand his thinking, his self-identifica