Early Judaism- A Comprehensive Overview

Assessment These long-running disputes could arise only if the Jewish communities were a significant presence in the cities conc ...

quested Roman support and, as far as we can judge from the evidence quoted by Josephus, they often got it, but the new letters a ...

for his behavior, exiled, and then put to death (Flacc.109–15, 121–26, 147–51, 169–70, 181, 185–91). When the next emperor took ...

terminated” the Jewish race in Egypt (Bella Civilia2.90). As always, main- tenance of peace and order was the main goal Roman po ...

Tcherikover, Victor, and Alexander Fuks, eds. 1957-1964.Corpus Papyrorum Judaicarum.3 vols. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. ...

Early Judaism and Early Christianity Daniel C. Harlow Today it is a commonplace to acknowledge that Jesus and his first follower ...

Galilee; they witness to the beliefs and practices of various Jewish groups; and they supply evidence for Jewish institutions li ...

early Christianity without resorting to the plural. For all the manifest vari- ety in Second Temple Judaism, a set of core belie ...

affinities with charismatic holy men like Hanina ben Dosa and Honi the Circle Drawer recalled in rabbinic tradition. Scholars de ...

gotten as oral traditions about Jesus began to circulate, so it is impossible to gain a full sense of his attitude toward aspect ...

sure, but he was not necessarily claiming divine status for himself, only an authority that relativized the prerogative of the p ...

right hand of Power and coming with the clouds of heaven” (Mark 14:62). Among Jews, claiming to be the messiah was not a blasphe ...

group called itself, would have appeared to outsiders as yet one more mes- sianic movement within Palestinian Judaism. In their ...

quickly, assuming different forms in a variety of social settings. But the fact remains that no significant community is atteste ...

only with potential Gentile converts but with religious resources and mod- els of communal organization. Although hard evidence ...

Paul Next to Jesus, Paul was the most significant figure in the movement during the first century. In some respects, he was even ...

written out of deference to Jewish believers in Rome and with an eye toward his upcoming visit to Jerusalem. His letter to the G ...

none of them does he engage Judaism directly. Even the Judaizing advo- cates of Gentile circumcision whom he attacks in Galatian ...

he considered himself free from the Law and wanted his Gentile congrega- tions to do the same. Except for their worshiping the G ...

who are “in him” — who are united to him by being baptized into his death and having his life formed in them by the Spirit — bec ...