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Title

Jesus & the rise of early Christianity : a history of New Testament times / Paul Barnett.

Author

Barnett, Paul (Paul William)

Publication

Downers Grove, Ill. : InterVarsity Press, [1999], ©1999.

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Description

448 pages : maps; 24 cm

Summary

• "In Jesus & the Rise of Early Christianity Paul Barnett not only places the New Testament within that world of caesars and Herods, proconsuls and Pharisees, Sadducees and revolutionaries, but argues that the mainspring and driving force of early Christian history is the historical Jesus. We cannot understand the rise of Christianity apart from this Jesus, the Messiah of Israel, and the spiritual and intellectual impact he had on his immediate followers and those who succeeded them.".
• "Jesus & the Rise of Early Christianity is a comprehensive survey of New Testament history that will meet the needs of students and teachers of the New Testament. In its engagement with contemporary scholarship and its emphasis on the propelling role of the historical and risen Jesus in the rise of Christianity, it provides a timely rejoinder to current revisionism in the exploration of Christian origins."--BOOK JACKET.

Alternative Title

Jesus and the rise of early Christianity

Subjects

• Bible > New Testament > History of Biblical events
• Bible > New Testament > History of contemporary events
• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [423]-429) and indexes.

Contents

• 1. The New Testament as History -- Excursus 1A. New Testament Chronology -- Excursus 1B. History and Myth -- 2. The Impact of Christ -- 3. The Hellenistic Background to Jesus -- 4. Herod, Idumaean, King of the Jews -- 5. Jesus' Birth & Boyhood -- 6. Jesus' Context: Galilee & Peraea -- 7. Jesus' Context: Judea -- Excursus 7A. The Search for the Historical Pontius Pilate -- 8. Jesus of Nazareth (c. 29-33) -- Excursus 8A. Working Assumptions -- Excursus 8B. The Criterion of Dissimilarity -- Excursus 8C. Did Jesus Make Claims to Deity? -- 9. Resurrection, Exaltation & the Spirit -- 10. The Community of the Messiah in Jerusalem (c. 33/34) -- Excursus 10A. The Use of Acts 1-5 for Historical Reconstruction -- 11. The Scattering of the Community & the Conversion of Saul (c. 34/35) -- 12. Peter in Palestine (33-47) -- 13. The Apostolate of Saul in the "Unknown Years" (c. 34-47) -- Excursus 13A. Paul's Mission Strategy According to Rainer Riesner --
• Excursus 13B. Jews, Proselytes and God-fearers -- 14. The Inclusion of the Gentiles (47-49) -- Excursus 14A. An Early Dating for Galatians -- Excursus 14B. The Missionary Agreement and the Jerusalem Council -- 15. James, Cephas & John -- 16. Paul's Later Ministry (c. 50-65) -- 17. Churches & Evangelists (33-100) -- 18. The Four Gospels -- 19. The Kingdom of Christ -- 20. Epilogue -- Excursus 20A. The Birth of Christianity According to J. Dominic Crossan.

ISBN

0830815880 (alk. paper)

LCCN

99036943

OCLC

• 41886175
• ocm41886175
• SCSB-4108773

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries