Early Christianity
their contents is limited. We are reliant on extracts of them quoted by Christians who replied to them. Celsus’ True Doctrine is ...
miraculously fell into a deep sleep from which they were reawak- ened (equally miraculously, of course: an angel was involved) s ...
This does not mean, of course, that there is no material evidence at all for Christianity before Constantine, but we must be cir ...
churches may have originated as private buildings whose owners gave over some space inside them for Christian gatherings. In mos ...
from both locations show the development of a Christian iconog- raphy that owes much to both Jewish and pagan precursors. For ex ...
of early Christianity. Private letters show the development of Christian sayings such as ‘God knows’, ‘if God wills it’, and so ...
It is clear that the study of early Christianity cannot be pursued by reading only a few normative texts, such as the New Testam ...
they were advancing. The same is true of their modern heirs, even if today’s scholars are wont to be less polemical than their f ...
modes of expression of modern quantifiable research and there- fore gives the misleading impression that it can produce a ‘true’ ...
Chapter 4 Messiahs and missions: contexts for the origins and spread of Christianity Before you opened this book, you probably h ...
(2004) hinged on questions of the ‘truth’ and ‘historical reliabil- ity’ of the New Testament accounts upon which it was ostensi ...
described in the New Testament, often include several pages, or even a chapter or two, on what is usually called the ‘Jewish bac ...
Christianity had a Jewish background, we have a clear under- standing of the relationship that emerging Christianity had to cont ...
he was executed for some political crime. When he was arraigned before Pilate, he was charged with claiming the title ‘king of t ...
missing from the accounts of Jesus’ career in the gospels. Never- theless, there are hints that, in spite of his eschewing viole ...
flight of the Hebrews from Egypt (Exodus14). Yet, however much at a general level Theudas might seem to resemble Jesus, he did n ...
sent from heaven (Nickelsburg 2003: 91–108). Indeed, even in the New Testament, the expressions used to articulate Jesus’ mes- s ...
‘background’ or ‘context’. That gives the impression that there was somehow a static, coherent, and even unitary Judaism out of ...
rise to Judaism and Christianity as two distinct religions.^4 If it is now uncontroversial to assert that figures such as Jesus ...
They did so, however, against a background of considerable overlap and interaction between Jewish and Christian communi- ties an ...
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