The History of Christianity: From the Disciples to the Dawn of the Reformation

more “Greek and barbarian”—everyone would enjoy the benefits of Greek civilization. o He established the polis as a center of cu ...

Lecture 2: The First Cultural Context—Greece and Rome • Developments in Hellenistic religion and philosophy corresponded to n ...

o Its literature and philosophy imitated Greek models, and Greek tutors were highly valued. o The Roman deities were merged sync ...

Lecture 2: The First Cultural Context—Greece and Rome o The Pax Romana (“Roman Peace”) eliminated bandits by land and pirates by ...

The First Cultural Context—Judaism................................................ Lecture 3 I n the last lecture, we saw how im ...

Lecture 3: The First Cultural Context—Judaism o As we will see in the next lecture, Jesus was not a messiah according to standar ...

o The covenant was expressed by observance of the commandments, which established Jews in righteousness with God and their neigh ...

Lecture 3: The First Cultural Context—Judaism Assimilation and Separation in the Diaspora • Jews in the Diaspora experienced ...

Jews in Palestine • Because of a different set of circumstances, Jews in Palestine experienced greater tensions with Gentiles ...

Lecture 3: The First Cultural Context—Judaism opposed to foreigners and those who accommodated them. The Sadducees identified th ...

interpretation of the commandments made the sect capable of surviving the destruction of the Temple. The Pharisees and the Chris ...

Lecture 3: The First Cultural Context—Judaism Barclay, Jews in the Mediterranean Diaspora. Cohen, From the Maccabees to the Mish ...

The Jesus Movement and the Birth of Christianity Lecture 4 H aving sketched the cultural matrix within which Christianity was fo ...

Lecture 4: The Jesus movement and the Birth of Christianity in apparent failure, with the abandonment of his followers and his e ...

experiences of Jesus after his death by his followers in a new mode of existence: As resurrected from the dead and exalted to Go ...

Lecture 4: The Jesus movement and the Birth of Christianity o The early believers’ claim was not that Jesus avoided death, or li ...

The Manner of Jesus’s Death • If the Resurrection of Jesus was the good news, his death seemed problematic to both Gentiles a ...

Lecture 4: The Jesus movement and the Birth of Christianity • The problem was not only for outsiders; those who came to belie ...

• Culturally, it was mixed, with a symbolic world shaped by a Judaism that was already Hellenized and with steady success amo ...

Lecture 5: Paul and Christianity’s First Expansion Paul and Christianity’s First Expansion Lecture 5 I n the last lecture, we sa ...