Polemical criticism of the “catholic” and non-canonical early Christian Epistles

Abstract

The article deals with the “Catholic Epistles” from the New Testament and other texts written by Christian authors in the epistolary genre supposedly before the year 130 CE from the point of view of the polemical criticism, its main principles have been discussed in the previous article of this series. The aim is to define the theses which the early Christian authors argued with and to reconstruct as much as possible the currents within the early Christianity which left no texts of their own. In addition, it discusses the questions of the break between Christianity and Judaism.