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"A fresh and rigorously researched take on Christianity's founding."--Publishers WeeklyThe first Christians were weird. Just how weird is often lost on today's believers.. Within Roman society, the earliest Christians stood out for the oddness of their beliefs and practices. They believed unusual things, worshiped God in strange ways, and lived a unique lifestyle. They practiced a whole new way of thinking about and doing religion that would have been seen as bizarre and dangerous when compared to Roman religion and most other religions of the ancient world.. Award-winning author, blogger, speaker, and New Testament teacher Nijay Gupta traces the emerging Christian faith in its Roman context in this accessible and engaging book. Christianity would have been seen as radical in the Roman world, but some found this new religion attractive and compelling.
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Nijay K. Gupta serves as associate professor of New Testament at Portland Seminary (George Fox University, Oregon) .He has written several books including: Worship That Makes Sense to Paul (Walter de Gruyter, 2010) , Prepare, Succeed, Advance: A Guidebook for Getting a PhD in Biblical Studies and Beyond (Wipf & Stock, 2011) , Colossians (Smyth & Helwys, 2013) , 1-2 Thessalonians (Cascade, 2016) , and The Lord's Prayer (Smyth & Helwys, 2018) . He has also written numerous academic articles for journals such as Journal for the Study of the New Testament and The Catholic Biblical Quarterly. Gupta is a member of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas and serves on the boards of Ex Auditu, Journal for the Study of Paul and His Letters, and the monograph series Biblical Interpretation (Brill) . He is co-editor of the planned second edition of the Dictionary of Paul and His Letters (InterVarsity Press) .Please visit his blog: www.cruxsolablog.com
