Hellenists and Hebrews:  Reappraising Division within the Earliest Church

Hellenists and Hebrews is currently out of print, but a revised and updated version of the book will be published next year in Eerdmans' Biblical Resource Series. 

"Dr. Hill's work will lead students of the New Testament to change the way they think about the 'Hebrews' and the 'Hellenists' of Acts.  This will lead to a revision of widespread views about the development of early Christian history and theology."    

E. P. Sanders, Duke University

"This book challenges a hypothesis that had gained the status of an axiom.  Hill's counterargument unfolds with meticulous attention to detail, a most judicious weighing of the evidence, and an almost irresistible logic.  Moreover, he writes with such grace and clarity that the argument speeds to its conclusion like a detective story."   

Wayne Meeks, Yale University

"Craig Hill's careful work compels us to reassess common assumptions about the earliest churches. Students of the New Testament will spare themselves many blunders and facile generalizations if they pay heed to Hill's contribution.  Examining the evidence of Acts and the Pauline letters with a historian's eye, he mounts a cogent critique of all hypotheses--from Baur to Hengel--that overschematize ideological divisions within early Christianity.  Hill's thorough exegetical work clears the ground for a more nuanced appreciation of the cultural and theological complexity of the church in the first century."   

Richard B. Hays, Duke University Divinity School