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Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement.

Porter, Stanley E.

Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (597 pages) - Texts and Editions for New Testament Study Series ; v.12 . - Texts and Editions for New Testament Study Series .

Intro -- ‎Contents -- ‎Preface -- ‎Abbreviations -- ‎List of Contributors -- ‎Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement: An Introduction (Porter and Pitts) -- ‎Part 1. The Formation of the Jesus Movement and Its Precursors -- ‎John the Baptist in the Fourth Gospel (Rothschild) -- ‎John's Baptist in Luke's Gospel (DelHousaye) -- ‎From John to Apollos to Paul: How the Baptism of John Entered the Jesus Movement (Patterson) -- ‎Followers, Servants, and Traitors: The Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels and in Ancient Judaism (Hezser) -- ‎Part 2. Production of Early Christian Gospels -- ‎The Pre-citation Fallacy in New Testament Scholarship and Sanders's Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition (Porter and Pitts) -- ‎Was Matthew a Plagiarist? Plagiarism in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Richards) -- ‎Compositional Techniques within Plutarch and the Gospel Tradition (Licona) -- ‎The Narrative Perspective of the Fourth Gospel (Förster) -- ‎Assessing the Criteria for Differentiating the Cross Gospel (Porter and Pitts) -- ‎Part 3. Early Christian Descriptions of the Jesus Movement -- ‎From Jesus to Lord and Other Contributions of the Early Aramaic-Speaking Congregation in Jerusalem (Jones) -- ‎Did Jesus, in the Memory of His Earliest Followers, Ever Nurse the Sick? (Thompson) -- ‎The Kingdom of God is among You: Prospects for a Q Community (Rollens) -- ‎An Imminent Parousia and Christian Mission: Did the New Testament Writers Really Expect Jesus's Imminent Return? (Keown) -- ‎Christian Origins and Imperial-Critical Studies of the New Testament Gospels (Carter) -- ‎"No Stone Left upon Another": Considering Mark's Temple Motif in Narrative and History (Winn) -- ‎The Holy Spirit as Witness of Jesus in the Canonical Gospels (Stack) -- ‎New Exodus Traditions in Earliest Christianity (Perrin). ‎Sea Storms, Divine Rescues, and the Tribulation: The Jonah Motif in the Book of Matthew (Rieske) -- ‎The Parables of Jesus and Socrates (Wright) -- ‎Part 4. The Jewish Mission and Its Literature -- ‎Why Have We Stopped Reading the Catholic Epistles Together? Tracing the Early Reception of a Collection (Lockett) -- ‎A Jewish Denial: 1John and the Johannine Mission (Jensen) -- ‎Love One Another and Love the World: The Love Command and Jewish Ethics in the Johannine Community (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 (Heilig) -- ‎Tradition as Interpretation: Linguistic Structure and the Citation of Scripture in 1Peter 2:1-10 (Pitts) -- ‎1Peter and the Theological Logic of Christian Familial Imagery (Malcolm) -- ‎Modern Authors Index -- ‎Index of Ancient Sources -- ‎Old Testament -- ‎Apocrypha -- ‎New Testament -- ‎Q Source -- ‎Old Testament Pseudepigrapha -- ‎New Testament Apocrypha -- ‎Qumran Documents -- ‎Early Jewish Writings -- ‎Rabbinic Writings -- ‎Greco-Roman Writings -- ‎Early Christian Writings -- ‎Papyri and Inscriptions.

This book explores the events, people, and writings surrounding the early Jesus movement. The essays are divided into four groups: the movement's formation, production of its early Gospels, description of the Jesus movement itself, and the Jewish mission and its literature.

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