Where Did Christianity Come From?,9780814651025

Where Did Christianity Come From?

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ISBN13: 9780814651025
ISBN10: 081465102X
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2001-03-01
Publisher(s): Liturgical Pr
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Summary

Where Did Christianity Come From? surveys the first 150 years of Christianity. It looks for the environment in which Christianity began and traces the process by which Christianity emerged from it. The search follows clues given by familiar rites and institutions, especially by the central Christian sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist. The formation of Christianity involved both continuity and discontinuity with the original environment, symbolized by the death and resurrection of Jesus. This approach conveys new insights into the study of Christian origins.

Author Biography

Justin, Taylor, S.M., Ph.D., since 1988 has been professor of New Testament and the Early Church at the Ecole Biblique in Jerusalem

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction 1(12)
Starting Points
13(21)
The Sources
13(13)
The New Testament
14(1)
New Testament and Kerygma
14(3)
The Acts of the Apostles
17(2)
Qumran Documents and Rabbinic Texts
19(1)
The Qumran Documents
19(1)
The Rabbinic Texts
20(1)
Philo and Josephus
21(1)
Philo of Alexandria
21(1)
Flavius Josephus
22(2)
Conclusions
24(2)
Two Intriguing Episodes
26(8)
Peter and Cornelius (Acts 10:1-48)
26(3)
The Night at Troas (Acts 20:7-12)
29(5)
Baptism And Eucharist
34(23)
Baptism
35(9)
John's Baptism
36(4)
John Jesus, and Their Disciples
40(1)
The Baptism of Jesus and Christian Baptism
41(3)
The Last Supper
44(11)
The Problem of Chronology
44(2)
Last Supper and Passover
46(2)
Looking for a Meaning
48(7)
Conclusions
55(2)
Jewish Galilee
57(30)
Galilee Until Herod
59(5)
After the Exile
59(2)
Around Herod the Great
61(3)
Hillel and Galilee
64(6)
A Distant Enthronement
64(3)
An Essential Question About Passover
67(3)
The Galilee That Jesus Knew
70(4)
Before and After the Downfall of Jerusalem
74(6)
Josephus and Galilee
74(1)
The Academy of Yavneh
75(3)
Migration into Galilee after 135
78(2)
From Fraternities to Schools
80(5)
The Ideal of the Fraternity (habura)
80(2)
Proselyte Baptism
82(3)
Conclusions
85(2)
The Gentile Mission
87(31)
Jews and Gentiles
87(14)
Jewish Proselytism?
87(3)
Reformers and Rebels
90(1)
Pharisee Reformers
90(1)
Militant Activists
91(2)
Christiani at Rome, Alexandria, Antioch
93(8)
Ephesus and Corinth
101(10)
Apollos and Correct Teaching
102(4)
Paul, from Corinth to Ephesus
106(2)
The Disciples at Ephesus
108(3)
The Beginnings of the Mission
111(7)
The Road to Damascus
112(2)
Events in Jerusalem
114(2)
Ascension and Pentecost
116(2)
James, Paul, And Peter
118(23)
James at Jerusalem
119(5)
The Jerusalem Decrees (Acts 15)
119(2)
Precepts for the Children of Noah
121(3)
The Heritage of James
124(5)
The Jewish Bishops of Jerusalem
124(1)
The Nazoreans
125(3)
James's Eclipse and Return to Favor
128(1)
Tannaites and Nazoreans
129(4)
Traces of Polemics
130(1)
The Danger of Christianity
131(2)
The Formation of the New Testament
133(8)
The Nazoreans and the Gospels
135(2)
Luke--Acts
137(1)
Toward a Canon
138(2)
Final Remarks
140(1)
The Covenant
141(21)
Passover
142(3)
The Paschal Lamb
142(1)
Passover and Easter
143(2)
Pentecost and the Covenant
145(3)
Admission and Exclusion
148(4)
Initiation in the Name of the Trinity
149(2)
Table Fellowship and Penalties
151(1)
Why Christiani?
152(10)
Christians, Anointings
153(4)
The Sign of the Cross
157(3)
Conclusions
160(2)
And Jesus?
162(7)
``A prophet powerful in words and in deeds''
163(2)
``We were hoping''
165(1)
``Our leaders gave him up''
166(1)
``who said that he is living''
167(2)
Conclusion 169(3)
For Further Reading 172(2)
Appendix: The ``Slavonic'' Josephus 174(3)
Glossary of Terms and Names 177(3)
Index of Scriptural References 180(6)
Index of Non-Scriptural References 186

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