Goodenough on the Beginnings of Christianity / A.T. Kraabel.

• Author: Brown University.; Kraabel, A.T.
• TeilnehmendeR: Kraabel, A.T.,; Brown University.
• Place / Publishing House: Atlanta : : Scholars Press,, 2020.; ©2020.
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Edition: Second edition.
• Language: English
• Series: Brown Judaic studies; 212
• Physical Description: 1 online resource
• Notes: The text of this book is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/. To use this book, or parts of this book, in any way not covered by the license, please contact Brown Judaic Studies, Brown University, Box 1826, Providence, RI 02912.

Few scholars loom as large in the history of scholarship on ancient Judaism than does Erwin Ramsdell Goodenough (1893-1965). A professor at Yale University for forty years, Goodenough fundamentally changed our understanding of Jews in the Hellenistic world, even when his suggestions turned out to be incorrect. Best known for his monumental, Jewish Symbols in the Greco-Roman Period, Goodenough also wrote on Christian origins, developing his own theory in a series of essays. In Goodenough on the Beginnings of Christianity, A. T. Kraabel has collected and organized the most important of these essays, which even after half a century remain relevant and fruitful.

Table of Contents

The Pseudo-Justinian “Oratio ad Graecos” -- The Fundamental Motif of Christianity -- John a Primitive Gospel -- Professor Goodenough and the Fourth Gospel -- A Reply [to no. 4] -- The Inspiration of New Testament Research -- Religious Aspirations -- The Bosporus Inscriptions to the Most High God -- An Early Christian Bread Stamp -- The Perspective of Acts -- Paul and the Hellenization of Christianity [with A. Thomas Kraabel].