Conflicting criminal jurisdictions in the New Testament and the early Church
The early Christians engaged Jewish and Roman criminal jurisdictions as two distinct instantiations of a legal Other, sometimes set in deliberate contrast, and in addition to emerging internal processes of Christian jurisdiction. Pre-Constantinian Christianity never simply abdicated or ‘outsourced’...
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2020
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