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When Christians were Jews : the first generation / Paula Fredriksen.
LIBRA BR165 .F74 2018
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fredriksen, Paula, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Church history--Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600.
- Church history.
- Church history--Primitive and early church.
- Jews--History--586 B.C.-70 A.D.
- Jews.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 261 pages ; 22 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Summary:
- How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus's prophecy - "The Kingdom of God is at hand!" - they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group's hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement's midcentury missions, to the city's fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.
- Contents:
- 1 Up to Jerusalem p. 7
- The Gospels, Jesus, and Jerusalem p. 14
- Paul and the Temple p. 23
- The Essenes and the Temple p. 29
- Popular Prophets and the Temple p. 32
- 2 God's Holy Mountain p. 43
- The Tables of the Moneychangers p. 43
- The Feasts of the Jews p. 52
- The Politics of Prophecy p. 67
- 3 From Miracle to Mission p. 74
- Resurrection and Redemption p. 74
- Kingdom and Community p. 88
- The Parousia That Failed p. 99
- 4 Beginning from Jerusalem p. 108
- The Meanings of "Messiah" p. 109
- The Whole House of Israel p. 123
- Israel and the Nations p. 140
- 5 The Ends of the Ages p. 144
- The Baffle of the Gods p. 147
- The Image of God and the Son of Man p. 162
- The Mountain of Fire p. 171.
- ISBN:
- 0300190514
- 9780300190519
- OCLC:
- 1028939651
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