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Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement explores the events, people, and writings surrounding the founding of the early Jesus movement in the mid to late first century. The essays are divided into four parts, focused upon the movement’s formation, the production of its early Gospels, description of the Jesus movement itself, and the Jewish mission and its literature. This collection of essays includes chapters by a global cast of scholars from a variety of methodological and critical viewpoints, and continues the important Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Context series.

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Author:   Stanley E. Porter ,  Andrew W. Pitts
Publisher:   Brill
Imprint:   Brill
Volume:   12
Weight:   1.059kg
ISBN:  

9789004372696

ISBN 10:   9004372695
Pages:   582
Publication Date:   16 August 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
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Table of Contents

Preface Abbreviations List of Contributors Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement: An Introduction  Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts Part 1 The Formation of the Jesus Movement and Its Precursors John the Baptist in the Fourth Gospel  Clare K. Rothschild John’s Baptist in Luke’s Gospel  John DelHousaye From John to Apollos to Paul: How the Baptism of John Entered the Jesus Movement  Stephen J. Patterson Followers, Servants and Traitors: The Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels and in Ancient Judaism  Catherine Hezser Part 2 Production of Early Christian Gospels The Pre-Citation Fallacy in New Testament Scholarship and Sanders’s Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition  Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts Was Matthew a Plagiarist? Plagiarism in Greco-Roman Antiquity  E. Randolph Richards Compositional Techniques within Plutarch and the Gospel Tradition  Michael R. Licona The Narrative Perspective of the Fourth Gospel  Hans Förster Assessing the Criteria for Differentiating the Cross Gospel  Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. 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  F. Stanley Jones Did Jesus, in the Memory of His Earliest Followers, Ever Nurse the Sick?  Steve Thompson The Kingdom of God is among You: Prospects for a Q Community  Sarah Rollens An Imminent Parousia and Christian Mission: Did the New Testament Writers Really Expect Jesus’ Imminent Return?  Mark Keown Christian Origins and Imperial-Critical Studies of the New Testament Gospels  Warren Carter “No Stone Left upon Another”: Considering Mark’s Temple Motif in Narrative and History  Adam Winn The Holy Spirit as Witness of Jesus in the Canonical Gospels  Judith Stack-Nelson New Exodus Traditions in Earliest Christianity  Nicholas Perrin Sea Storms, Divine Rescues, and the Tribulation: The Jonah Motif in the Book of Matthew  Susan M. Rieske The Parables of Jesus and Socrates  Adam Z. 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  Darian Lockett A Jewish Denial: 1 John and the Johannine Mission  Matthew Jensen Love One Another and Love the World: The Love Command and Jewish Ethics in the Johannine Community  Beth M. 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  Christoph Heilig Tradition as Interpretation: Linguistic Structure and the Citation of Scripture in 1 Peter 2:1–10  Andrew W. Pitts 1 Peter and the Theological Logic of Christian Familial Imagery  Matthew R. Malcolm Index of Modern Authors Index of Ancient Sources

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Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of nearly thirty books and the editor of over eighty volumes. Andrew W. Pitts, Ph.D. (2014), McMaster Divinity College, is an independent scholar. He is working on a monograph on Greco-Roman historiography and the Gospels. Contributors are: Warren Carter, John DelHousaye, Hans Förster, Christoph Heilig, Catherine Hezser, Matthew Jensen, F. Stanley Jones, Mark Keown, Michael R. Licona, Darian Lockett, Matthew R. Malcolm, Stephen J. Patterson, Nicholas Perrin, Andrew W. Pitts, Stanley E. Porter, E. Randolph Richards, Susan M. Rieske, Sarah E. Rollens, Clare K. Rothschild, Judith Stack-Nelson, Beth M. Stovell, Steven Thompson, Adam Winn, Adam Z. Wright

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