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Introduction | |
A Note on Abbreviations and References | |
General Literature | |
Translations of Sources | |
The Mother Soul: Judaism from the Maccabees to the Rabbis | |
The Cultural Dimension: Judaism & Hellenism | |
Introduction: The Maccabbes Revolt | |
Alexander the Great and the Triumph of Hellenism | |
The Hellenistic City: The Polis | |
A New Conception of the Torah | |
The Concept of Judaism | |
Greek in Israel | |
Active Disemination of Judaism and Christianity | |
Postscript | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
The Political Dimension: Jews & the Roman Empire | |
The End of the Hasmonean Dynasty and the Beginning of Roman Rule | |
The Bar Kokhba Revolt | |
The Tension Between Jews and Romans | |
The Legal Position of Jewish and Gentile Believers | |
Epilogue | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
The Geographical Dimension: The Land of Israel & the Diaspora | |
The Diaspora | |
The Land of Israel | |
The Galilee | |
Jerusalem: The Capital of All Jews | |
"Palestinian" Judaism and "Hellenistic" Judaism? | |
Geography of Synagogue and Church | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Jerusalem: The City of the Temple | |
Was Jerusalem Relevant? | |
The Temple and the Pilgrimages | |
The Temple: The Financial Significance | |
The Temple: The Religious Significance | |
The Chief Priests, the Priests and the Levites | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
How Many "Judaisms"? | |
Introduction: "Give me Jabne!" | |
The Priestly Elite | |
Priestly Judaism: The Sadducees | |
Priestly Judaism: The Community at Qumran and the Essenes | |
The Community at Qumran | |
The Essenes | |
Priestly Judaism for Laypeople: The Pharisees | |
Judaism Apart from the Temple: The Synagogue | |
Nationalistic Judaism: The Zealots | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Christian Beginnings: From Jewish Party to Gentile Church | |
Jesus Within Judaism | |
"The Old Quest" | |
"The New Quest" | |
"The Third Quest": A Jewish Quest | |
Jesus and the Hope for Israel | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
The Early Jerusalem Community of Believers in Jesus | |
The Importance of Jerusalem to the Early Church | |
Conflict in the Temple; Sympathy from the People | |
Increased Conflict: The "Hellenists" | |
The First Believers' View of the Temple | |
What About the Torah? | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
The Mission to the Gentiles & the Question of the Torah | |
Problems? | |
The Role of Paul and the Apostolic Counsil | |
The Mission to the God-Fearing Gentiles | |
The Reaction of the Roman Authorities | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
The Land of Israel: The Church of Jewish Believers | |
Internal Diversity | |
The Sources | |
Jewish Believers in the Land of Israel (I): The Archaeology of Holy Places | |
Jerusalem: The Holy Sepulchre | |
Jerusalem: A Community Center on Mount Zion | |
Capernaum: The House of Peter? | |
Nazareth | |
Jewish Believers in the Land of Israel (II): Literary Evidence | |
The Relatives of Jesus | |
Eusebius's List of Jewish Christian "Bishops" | |
The Rabbis and the Minim | |
Bar Kokhba and the Jewish Believers | |
The Nazarenes | |
The Ebionites | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
The Diaspora: The Church of Jews & Gentiles | |
The Apostolic Fathers | |
Clement | |
Didache | |
Ignatius | |
Barnabas | |
Concluding Remarks: The Jewish Believers as the Theological Teachers of Gentile Christianity | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Encounter with Paganism--& the Jewish Heritage | |
Introduction | |
Conversion in Judaism and Christianity | |
The Apologists | |
The Martyrs of Lyons | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Orthodoxy & Heresy: The Challenge from Gnosticism & Marcion | |
The Basic Defination of Heresy | |
The Fundamentals of Gnostic Doctrine | |
Gnosticism and Christianity | |
The Origins of Gnosticism | |
Gnostic Elitism | |
Marcion | |
Conclusion: Heresy and Orthodoxy | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Elder & Younger Brothers: The Second-Century Debate with Judaism | |
Introduction: The Bitterness of Family Strife | |
From Jewish Self-Criticism to Anti-Jewish Slogans | |
The Assertiveness of the Younger Brother | |
Justin's Dialogue with Trypho | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
The Persistence of the Jewish Heritage: Faith & Order in the Early Church | |
Which Books Belong in the Bible? The Question of Canon | |
What is "Scripture"? | |
The Old Testament Canon in Judaism and the Early Church | |
Delimiting the Hebrew Canon | |
The Old Testament Apocrypha | |
The New Testament as Canon | |
Delimiting the New Testament Canon | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Christology in the Making (I): The Messiah | |
Jesus: The Messiah? | |
The Messianic Task | |
Confessing Belief in the Messiah: The Apostolic Creed | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Christology in the Making (II): The Incarnate Word | |
Eastern and Western Christology | |
Eastern Christology: Hellenistic? | |
Wisdom Incarnate | |
Jesus and Wisdom/Torah | |
The Father and the Son | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
The Creative Spirit | |
From Spirit to Organization? | |
The Spirit Who Creates | |
Spirit, Eucharist and Ministry | |
Charismatic Gifts | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Conversion, Baptism & New Life | |
Conversion and Baptism in the Early Community: The Double Background | |
Jewish and Christian Baptism | |
Jewish and Christian Rituals of Conversion | |
Pre-Baptismal Instruction | |
Fasting, Prayer and Exorcism | |
Renouncing the Devil, Confessing Faith | |
The "Living Water" of Baptism | |
Going Down, Coming Up | |
Undressing and Dressing Anew | |
Post-Baptismal Anointing | |
The Baptismal Eucharist | |
The Season for Baptism | |
Baptism, Spirit and New Life | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Worship & Calendar: The Christian Week and Year | |
Freedom and Order | |
The Big Novelty of Christian Worship: The First Day | |
Sunday Worship | |
The Service of the Word | |
The Christian Day and Week | |
The Christian Year | |
Passover (Pesach) and Easter | |
The Jewish Festival of Weeks (Shavuot) and Christian Pentecost | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Passover & Eucharist | |
The Eucharist: Lines of Development | |
The Eucharist Prayer and the Passover Meal | |
The Eucharist Prayers in Didache 9-10 | |
The Eucharist Prayer in Justin and Polycarp | |
The Eucharist Prayer in Hippolytus | |
Temple Square | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Epilogue | |
The Church Facing a New Era | |
The Great Roman Crisis and Restitution | |
The Great Persecution | |
"The Constantinian Revolution" | |
What Has the Emperor to Do with the Church? | |
Renouncing the World in a "Christian" Empire | |
"The Sanctification of Time" | |
The Sanctification of Places: The Idea of the Holy Land | |
Christian Philo-Semitis: A Grass-Roots Movement | |
Postscript: No End | |
Suggestions for Further Reading | |
Index of Modern Authors | |
Index of Subjects | |
Index of Ancient Writings | |
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