Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement explores the events, people, and writings surrounding the founding of the early Jesus movement in the mid to late first century. The essays are divided into four parts, focused upon the movements formation, the production of its early Gospels, description of the Jesus movement itself, and the Jewish mission and its literature. This collection of essays includes chapters by a global cast of scholars from a variety of methodological and critical viewpoints, and continues the important Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Context series.
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| Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement: An Introduction |
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PART 1 The Formation of the Jesus Movement and Its Precursors |
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John the Baptist in the Fourth Gospel |
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John's Baptist in Luke's Gospel |
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From John to Apollos to Paul: How the Baptism of John Entered the Jesus Movement |
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Followers, Servants, and Traitors: The Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels and in Ancient Judaism |
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PART 2 Production of Early Christian Gospels |
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The Pre-citation Fallacy in New Testament Scholarship and Sanders's Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition |
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Was Matthew a Plagiarist? Plagiarism in Greco-Roman Antiquity |
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Compositional Techniques within Plutarch and the Gospel Tradition |
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The Narrative Perspective of the Fourth Gospel |
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Assessing the Criteria for Differentiating the Cross Gospel |
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PART 3 Early Christian Descriptions of the Jesus Movement |
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From Jesus to Lord and Other Contributions of the Early Aramaic-Speaking Congregation in Jerusalem |
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Did Jesus, in the Memory of His Earliest Followers, Ever Nurse the Sick? |
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The Kingdom of God is among You: Prospects for a Q Community |
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An Imminent Parousia and Christian Mission: Did the New Testament Writers Really Expect Jesus's Imminent Return? |
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Christian Origins and Imperial-Critical Studies of the New Testament Gospels |
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"No Stone Left upon Another": Considering Mark's Temple Motif in Narrative and History |
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The Holy Spirit as Witness of Jesus in the Canonical Gospels |
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New Exodus Traditions in Earliest Christianity |
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Sea Storms, Divine Rescues, and the Tribulation: The Jonah Motif in the Book of Matthew |
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The Parables of Jesus and Socrates |
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PART 4 The Jewish Mission and Its Literature |
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Why Have We Stopped Reading the Catholic Epistles Together? Tracing the Early Reception of a Collection |
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A Jewish Denial: 1 John and the Johannine Mission |
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Love One Another and Love the World: The Love Command and Jewish Ethics in the Johannine Community |
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The New Perspective (on Paul) on Peter: Cornelius's Conversion, the Antioch Incident, and Peter's Stance towards Gentiles in the Light of the Philosophy of Historiography |
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Tradition as Interpretation: Linguistic Structure and the Citation of Scripture in 1 Peter 2:1--10 |
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1 Peter and the Theological Logic of Christian Familial Imagery |
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| Index of Modern Authors |
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| Index of Ancient Sources |
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Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of nearly thirty books and the editor of over eighty volumes.
Andrew W. Pitts, Ph.D. (2014), McMaster Divinity College, is an independent scholar. He is working on a monograph on Greco-Roman historiography and the Gospels.
Contributors are: Warren Carter, John DelHousaye, Hans Förster, Christoph Heilig, Catherine Hezser, Matthew Jensen, F. Stanley Jones, Mark Keown, Michael R. Licona, Darian Lockett, Matthew R. Malcolm, Stephen J. Patterson, Nicholas Perrin, Andrew W. Pitts, Stanley E. Porter, E. Randolph Richards, Susan M. Rieske, Sarah E. Rollens, Clare K. Rothschild, Judith Stack-Nelson, Beth M. Stovell, Steven Thompson, Adam Winn, Adam Z. Wright
