Research Catalog

Title

The beginnings of Christianity : an introduction to the New Testament / Howard Clark Kee.

Author

Kee, Howard Clark.

Publication

New York : T & T Clark, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

vii, 502 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"New Testament scholar Howard Kee performs readings of texts and communities in this study of early Christian origins. In methodological terms, the historical study of Christian origins in all its diversity must involve three different modes of analysis: (1) epistemological, (2) sociological, and (3) eschatological."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• Bible. > Introductions
• Church history > Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
• Nieuwe Testament
• Vroege kerk

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction : methods and resources for the history of Christian origins -- 1. The impact of Graeco-Roman politics and culture on Judaism -- 2. The Jesus tradition and the formation of the new covenant community -- 3. Paul and the apostolic traditions : Christianity extends into the wider Graeco-Roman world -- 4. The noncanonical apostolic traditions -- 5. The emerging structures of early Christianity : modes of achieving theological and social unity -- Excursus 1. Changing historical models in the biblical tradition -- Excursus 2. Changing historical methods in the study of Christian origins -- Excursus 3. Wisdom and gnosticism : origins and impact on Christianity -- Excursus 4. The multiple impact of stoicism on the origins of Christianity -- Excursus 5. Facing the future : common themes in Jewish apocalyptic and Graeco-Roman philosophy and literature -- Excursus 6. Bridal imagery in the mysteries of the Kabeiroi and of Serapis -- Excursus 7. The kingdom of God in the Pauline letters.

ISBN

• 0567027317
• 9780567027313
• 0567027414 (pbk.)
• 9780567027412 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2005015641
• 99934385166

OCLC

• 60589106
• ocm60589106\
• SCSB-5220887

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries