Martin Hengel gathers an encyclopedic amount of material, ancient and modern, to present an exhaustive survey of the early course of Hellenistic civilization ...

Of all the early Christian authors before the second half of the second century, we know by far the most about Paul. Of no figure in early Christianity ...

This is the fascinating story of a group of reformers who tried to go too fast, bungled their reform, and so changed the course of history. Hengel's thesis ...

This volume brings together two important historical studies by Professor Hengel, Acts and the History of Earliest Christianity, and Property and Riches ...

Asks how the term 'gospel' came to be used both for proclamation and narrative, and why the church in forming the canon of scripture chose to include four ...

This short but highly significant study is the first real sequel to Professor Martin Hengel's classic and monumental work 'Judaism and Hellenism'. It demonstrates ...

Taking as his starting-point Jesus' saying in Matt 8:22, ""Let the dead bury the dead,"" Professor Hengel subjects Jesus' discipleship sayings to a rigorous ...

It might well be claimed that there was more development in christology during the period from the crucifixion of Jesus to the writing of St Paul's letter ...

This learned study may claim to be the most comprehensive and detailed survey ever to have been published of the evidence of the use of crucifixion in ...