AJR reviews Walsh, The Origins of Early Christian Literature

ANCIENT JEW REVIEW: The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture (Tyler Blaine Wilson).

Robyn Faith Walsh, The Origins of Early Christian Literature: Contextualizing the New Testament within Greco-Roman Literary Culture (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

Walsh argues that the Synoptic Gospels are not primarily religious texts, but literary works created by “elite cultural producers” (p. 110), Greco-Roman authors who had an interest in Judaean culture and religious motifs, but who may not have understood themselves as belonging to a Christian community.

I noted the publication of the book here and another review of it here.

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