Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement
Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts, Leiden: Brill, 2018
Description
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 movement’s 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. (Text by the editors)
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Table of contents
Preface
Abbreviations
List of Contributors
Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement: An Introduction – By: Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
The Formation of the Jesus Movement and Its Precursors
John the Baptist in the Fourth Gospel – By: Clare K. Rothschild
John’s Baptist in Luke’s Gospel – By: John DelHousaye
From John to Apollos to Paul: How the Baptism of John Entered the Jesus Movement – By: Stephen J. Patterson
Followers, Servants, and Traitors: The Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels and in Ancient Judaism – By: Catherine Hezser
Production of Early Christian Gospels
The Pre-citation Fallacy in New Testament Scholarship and Sanders’s Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition – By: Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
Was Matthew a Plagiarist? Plagiarism in Greco-Roman Antiquity – By: E. Randolph Richards
Compositional Techniques within Plutarch and the Gospel Tradition – By: Michael R. Licona
The Narrative Perspective of the Fourth Gospel – By: Hans Förster
Assessing the Criteria for Differentiating the Cross Gospel – By: Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
Early Christian Descriptions of the Jesus Movement
From Jesus to Lord and Other Contributions of the Early Aramaic-Speaking Congregation in Jerusalem – By: F. Stanley Jones
Did Jesus, in the Memory of His Earliest Followers, Ever Nurse the Sick? – By: Steven Thompson
The Kingdom of God is among You: Prospects for a Q Community – By: Sarah E. Rollens
An Imminent Parousia and Christian Mission: Did the New Testament Writers Really Expect Jesus’s Imminent Return? – By: Mark Keown
Christian Origins and Imperial-Critical Studies of the New Testament Gospels – By: Warren Carter
“No Stone Left upon Another”: Considering Mark’s Temple Motif in Narrative and History – By: Adam Winn
The Holy Spirit as Witness of Jesus in the Canonical Gospels – By: Judith Stack
New Exodus Traditions in Earliest Christianity – By: Nicholas Perrin
Sea Storms, Divine Rescues, and the Tribulation: The Jonah Motif in the Book of Matthew – By: Susan M. Rieske
The Parables of Jesus and Socrates – By: Adam Z. Wright
The Jewish Mission and Its Literature
Why Have We Stopped Reading the Catholic Epistles Together? Tracing the Early Reception of a Collection – By: Darian Lockett
A Jewish Denial: 1 John and the Johannine Mission – By: Matthew Jensen
Love One Another and Love the World: The Love Command and Jewish Ethics in the Johannine Community – By: Beth M. Stovell
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 – By: Christoph Heilig
Tradition as Interpretation: Linguistic Structure and the Citation of Scripture in 1 Peter 2:1–10 – By: Andrew W. Pitts
1 Peter and the Theological Logic of Christian Familial Imagery – By: Matthew R. Malcolm
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