Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement.

• Superior document: Texts and editions for New Testament study ; Volume 12
• Author: Stanley E. Porter; Andrew W. Pitts (Editors)
• TeilnehmendeR: Porter, Stanley E., 1956-
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, , Boston: : Brill, , 2018.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study 12.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (597 pages).

Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement explores the events, people, and writings surrounding the founding of the early Jesus movement in the mid to late first century. The essays are divided into four parts, focused upon the movement’s formation, the production of its ea...

Table of Contents

• Front Matter
• Copyright Page
• Preface
• Abbreviations
• List of Contributors
• Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement: An Introduction / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
• The Formation of the Jesus Movement and Its Precursors
• John the Baptist in the Fourth Gospel / Clare K. Rothschild
• John’s Baptist in Luke’s Gospel / John DelHousaye
• From John to Apollos to Paul: How the Baptism of John Entered the Jesus Movement / Stephen J. Patterson
• Followers, Servants, and Traitors: The Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels and in Ancient Judaism / Catherine Hezser
• Production of Early Christian Gospels
• The Pre-citation Fallacy in New Testament Scholarship and Sanders’s Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
• Was Matthew a Plagiarist? Plagiarism in Greco-Roman Antiquity / E. Randolph Richards
• Compositional Techniques within Plutarch and the Gospel Tradition / Michael R. Licona
• The Narrative Perspective of the Fourth Gospel / Hans Förster
• Assessing the Criteria for Differentiating the Cross Gospel / Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts
• Early Christian Descriptions of the Jesus Movement
• From Jesus to Lord and Other Contributions of the Early Aramaic-Speaking Congregation in Jerusalem / F. Stanley Jones
• Did Jesus, in the Memory of His Earliest Followers, Ever Nurse the Sick? / Steven Thompson
• The Kingdom of God is among You: Prospects for a Q Community / Sarah E. Rollens
• An Imminent Parousia and Christian Mission: Did the New Testament Writers Really Expect Jesus’s Imminent Return? / Mark Keown
• Christian Origins and Imperial-Critical Studies of the New Testament Gospels / Warren Carter
• “No Stone Left upon Another”: Considering Mark’s Temple Motif in Narrative and History / Adam Winn
• The Holy Spirit as Witness of Jesus in the Canonical Gospels / Judith Stack
• New Exodus Traditions in Earliest Christianity / Nicholas Perrin
• Sea Storms, Divine Rescues, and the Tribulation: The Jonah Motif in the Book of Matthew / Susan M. Rieske
• The Parables of Jesus and Socrates / Adam Z. Wright
• The Jewish Mission and Its Literature
• Why Have We Stopped Reading the Catholic Epistles Together? Tracing the Early Reception of a Collection / Darian Lockett
• A Jewish Denial: 1 John and the Johannine Mission / Matthew Jensen
• Love One Another and Love the World: The Love Command and Jewish Ethics in the Johannine Community / Beth M. 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 / Christoph Heilig
• Tradition as Interpretation: Linguistic Structure and the Citation of Scripture in 1 Peter 2:1–10 / Andrew W. Pitts
• 1 Peter and the Theological Logic of Christian Familial Imagery / Matthew R. Malcolm.