Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete: Dynamics of Early Christian Identity Construction (Critical Approaches to Early Christianity, 3)

Book info: Reading the Letter to Titus in Light of Crete: Dynamics of Early Christian Identity Construction (Critical Approaches to Early Christianity, 3) (Hardcover, 200 pages) – Brill, 2023. Language: English.

This volume argues that Titus’s invocation of Crete affected the ways early readers developed their identities. Using archaeological data, classical writings, and early Christian documents, he describes multiple traditions that circulated on Crete and throughout the Roman Empire concerning Cretan Zeus, Cretan social structure, and Cretan Judaism. He then uses these traditions to interpret Titus and explain how the letter would intersect with and affect readers’ identities. Because readers had differing conceptions of Crete based on their location and access to and evaluation of Cretan traditions, readers would have developed their identities in multiple, conflictual, even contradictory ways. Editorial Reviews About the Author Michael Scott Robertson, Ph.D. (2021), Liverpool Hope University, is junior fellow at the Beyond Canon Collaborative Research Group at Universität Regensburg.