Early Christianity
the action of the Holy Spirit (Metzger 1987: 255). In other words, the reasons for a text’s inclusion in the New Testament was i ...
been written by persons who were either Jesus’ own disciples or companions of his earliest apostles. We encounter a slightly dif ...
the New Testament shows) to give their writings the authority associated with Paul’s name (Schnelle 1998: 276–348). These forger ...
Actsand the various epistles, and with Revelationat the end. This order makes sense in terms of how the contents of the various ...
of Markto explain the meaning of terms in Aramaic (5.41), and even certain Jewish customs (7.3–4). (3) The gospels represent not ...
so, not all scholars agree on this sequence of Mark, Matthew,Luke, and John: some suggest, for example, thatMatthewandMarkwere w ...
moreover, can be seen in the other texts in the New Testament. ThusActs of the Apostlespresents a debate between those who thoug ...
apocryphal epistles too, including an alleged correspondence between Paul and Seneca, the Roman philosopher who was one of the l ...
then disappeared, and whose writings did not match up to the standard of doctrinal truth adduced by those authorities who assemb ...
Furthermore, traditional definitions of the term father have tended to award it only to those writers whose work was deemed to b ...
A large body of early Christian literature was concerned specifically with matters of church practice, discipline, and doc- trin ...
society in which they lived. Such concerns prompted writings such as Tertullian’s works on the moral dangers posed by the worshi ...
Christian theological speculations (Jaeger 1962; H. Chadwick 1966). Indeed, the accommodation of Christianity and philosophy bec ...
Indeed, Eusebius’ scholarly method, which developed out of his researches into biblical texts, led him to quote extracts from ea ...
Jewish and pagan literature Once we move away from writings by and about the Christians themselves to look at what non-Christian ...
all books of the Hebrew Bible, with the possible exception of the book of Esther; works of biblical interpretation; rules for (p ...
of the Teacher of Righteousness with John the Baptist and Jesus as the Wicked Priest (who was married, divorced, and remarried, ...
works, such as the first and second books of Maccabees, that recount the Jewish revolt against the Hellenistic king of Syria in ...
20.9.1) – the hand of a later Christian interpolator who either inserted the whole passage or added specific phrases about Jesus ...
to events in the aftermath of the great fire that had destroyed much of Rome in 64. Tacitus also noted that the Christians were ...
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