This ground-breaking book is certainly the crowning of achievement of an author whose works have always been among the very best of modern theological scholarship. Gerd Theissen argues that neither a theology of the New Testament nor a history of the early church can do justice to all the dimensions of the earliest Christianity, which includes myth, ethic and ritual. Primitive Christianity is to be seen as a sign system that the first Christians built on the basis of Jewish religion. They constructed a semiotic cathedral, a world of signs in which to live, out of the narrative, ritual and ethical material. For them it was plausible and 'true', and those who want to be more than tourists in such a semiotic cathedral can find it plausible and true also. The first part of the book explores in depth the formation of the myth, or basic narrative, the ethics and rites of primitive Christianity, after which there is an account of how primitive Christianity differentiated itself from...

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