The birth of Christianity : discovering what happened in the years immediately after the execution of Jesus / John Dominic Crossan.

Author/creator Crossan, John Dominic
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication Info[San Francisco] : HarperSanFrancisco, ©1998.
Copyright Date©1998
Descriptionxxxiv, 653 pages ; 24 cm
Supplemental ContentPublisher description
Subjects
Jesus Christ--Resurrection.
Jesus Christ.
Christianity--Origin.
Church history--30-600, Early church.

Contents Part I Continuation and reconstruction. Voices of the first outsiders ; Reconstructing the earliest Christianity -- Part II Memory and orality. The mystique of oral tradition ; Does memory remember? ; A tale of two professors ; Chasm or interface? -- Part III Gospels and sources. Admitting Gospel presuppositions ; Relating Gospel contents ; Comparing Gospel manuscripts -- Part IV Methodology and anthropology. The problem of methodology ; Cross-cultural anthropology -- Part V History and archaeology. Judeo-Roman history ; Galilean archaeology -- Part VI Kingdom and eschatology. A comparison of two early Gospels ; Apocalyptic and ascetical eschatology ; Ethical eschatology -- Part VII Healers and itinerants. ; The meaning of healing ; Negating apocalyptic eschatology ; Affirming ethical eschatology ; The social status of Jesus -- Part VIII Teachers and householders. Criticizing the householders ; Controlling the itinerants ; Interpreting the commands ; A divided tradition -- Part IX Meal and community. The common meal tradition ; Communities of resistance -- Part X Story and tradition. The other Passion-Resurrection story ; Exegesis, lament, and biography -- Epilogue: The character of your God.
Review "John Dominic Crossan, expert on the historical Jesus, explores the lost years of earliest Christianity, those immediately following the execution of Jesus. He establishes the contextual setting by an interdisciplinary combination of anthropological, historical, and archaeological approaches. He identifies the textual sources by a literary analysis of the earliest discernible layers within our present gospels, both inside and outside the New Testament. Context and text come together to challenge long-standing assumptions about the role of Paul and the meaning of resurrection, and to forge new understanding of the birth of the Christian church."--Jacket.
General note"A Tree clause book."
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (pages 607-631) and indexes.
LCCN 97032526
ISBN0060616598 (cloth)
ISBN9780060616595 (cloth)
ISBN0060616601 (pbk.)
ISBN9780060616601 (pbk.)
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ISBN9780965664295
ISBN0060616725
ISBN9780060616724

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Joyner General Stacks BR129 .C75 1998 ✔ Available Place Hold