Format:
1 Online-Ressource (viii, 261 pages)
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illustrations, plans
ISBN:
9780300240740
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0300190514
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9780300190519
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Prologue -- Up to Jerusalem -- God's holy mountain -- From miracle to mission -- Beginning from Jerusalem -- The ends of the ages -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Indexes.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fredriksen, Paula When Christians were Jews New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] ISBN 0300190514
Language:
English
Author information:
Fredriksen, Paula 1951-
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