Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement

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This book explores the events, people, and writings surrounding the early Jesus movement. The essays are divided into four groups: the movement's formation, production of its early Gospels, description of the Jesus movement itself, and the Jewish mission and its literature. ‎Contents ‎Preface ‎Abbreviations ‎List of Contributors ‎Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement: An Introduction (Porter and Pitts) ‎Part 1. The Formation of the Jesus Movement and Its Precursors ‎John the Baptist in the Fourth Gospel (Rothschild) ‎John’s Baptist in Luke’s Gospel (DelHousaye) ‎From John to Apollos to Paul: How the Baptism of John Entered the Jesus Movement (Patterson) ‎Followers, Servants, and Traitors: The Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels and in Ancient Judaism (Hezser) ‎Part 2. Production of Early Christian Gospels ‎The Pre-citation Fallacy in New Testament Scholarship and Sanders’s Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition (Porter and Pitts) ‎Was Matthew a Plagiarist? Plagiarism in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Richards) ‎Compositional Techniques within Plutarch and the Gospel Tradition (Licona) ‎The Narrative Perspective of the Fourth Gospel (Förster) ‎Assessing the Criteria for Differentiating the Cross Gospel (Porter and 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 (Jones) ‎Did Jesus, in the Memory of His Earliest Followers, Ever Nurse the Sick? (Thompson) ‎The Kingdom of God is among You: Prospects for a Q Community (Rollens) ‎An Imminent Parousia and Christian Mission: Did the New Testament Writers Really Expect Jesus’s Imminent Return? (Keown) ‎Christian Origins and Imperial-Critical Studies of the New Testament Gospels (Carter) ‎“No Stone Left upon Another”: Considering Mark’s Temple Motif in Narrative and History (Winn) ‎The Holy Spirit as Witness of Jesus in the Canonical Gospels (Stack) ‎New Exodus Traditions in Earliest Christianity (Perrin) ‎Sea Storms, Divine Rescues, and the Tribulation: The Jonah Motif in the Book of Matthew (Rieske) ‎The Parables of Jesus and Socrates (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 (Lockett) ‎A Jewish Denial: 1John and the Johannine Mission (Jensen) ‎Love One Another and Love the World: The Love Command and Jewish Ethics in the Johannine Community (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 (Heilig) ‎Tradition as Interpretation: Linguistic Structure and the Citation of Scripture in 1Peter 2:1–10 (Pitts) ‎1Peter and the Theological Logic of Christian Familial Imagery (Malcolm) ‎Modern Authors Index ‎Index of Ancient Sources ‎Old Testament ‎Apocrypha ‎New Testament ‎Q Source ‎Old Testament Pseudepigrapha ‎New Testament Apocrypha ‎Qumran Documents ‎Early Jewish Writings ‎Rabbinic Writings ‎Greco-Roman Writings ‎Early Christian Writings ‎Papyri and Inscriptions