Does the Epistle to Diognetus affirm or evade a definition of Christian public identity?

Commentaries: Jefford, Lona.

Suggested Bibliography

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  • Baasland, Ernst. 2018. “Mission and love of enemy : Matthew 5:43-44 and Luke 6:27-28,35 (2 Clem. 13.3; Diogn. 5) in its Graeco-Roman context.” In The church and its mission in the New Testament and Early Christianity, 63-83. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck.
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  • Schinkel, Dirk. 2007. Die himmlische Bürgerschaft: Untersuchungen zu einem urchristlichen Sprachmotiv im Spannungsfeld von religiöser Integration und Abgrenzung im 1. und 2. Jahrhundert.. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
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