From Jesus to His First Followers : Anthropological and Historical Perspectives.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1 Jesus' Strategy: Interstitiality and Conflict -- 1 The Interstitial Movement of Jesus and the oikos -- 2 The Conflict of Jesus with the Society of His Time -- 3 Between Family and Temple: Jesus and Sacrifices -- 4 Kinship and Movement: Closeness and Distance in John's Perspective -- Part 2 Religious Practice as Continuity with Jesus -- 5 The Practice of the Heavenly Journey: The Case of Paul -- 6 Practices of Contact With the Supernatural: From Jesus to His Followers -- Part 3 Different Groups of Jesus' Followers, before Christianity -- 7 The Places of Jesus' Followers in the Land of Israel: Local Origins of the Gospels' Sources -- 8 Divergent Lines of Transmission and Memory: The Passion Narratives in Mark and John -- 9 A Persecuted and Antagonistic Minority: The Strategy of Matthew -- 10 'Mise en histoire' and Social Memory: The Politics of the Acts of the Apostles -- 11 Investigating Domestic Slavery in John -- 4 Separation Between Jews and Christians -- 12 The Separation of the Jesus' Followers from the Jews: The Case of Burial Space -- Bibliography -- Index of Names -- Thematic Index.

From Jesus to His First Followers represents the process of transformation that began after Jesus' death. Continuity and discontinuity between the early groups of followers and Jesus are primarily examined in the religious practices.

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