Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement.
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- 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.