Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-90-04-37269-6
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 12, 582 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 1059 g

Reihe: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study

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 early Gospels, description of the Jesus movement itself, and the Jewish mission and its literature. This collection of essays includes chapters by a global cast of scholars from a variety of methodological and critical viewpoints, and continues the important Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Context series.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porter, Stanley E

Pitts, Andrew W

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Bibelwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christentum/Christliche Theologie Allgemein Organisation & Institutionen von Kirchen und Gemeinden
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte Frühes Christentum, Patristik, Christliche Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Abbreviations
List of Contributors

Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement: An Introduction
Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts

Part 1 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

Part 2 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

Part 3 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?
Steve Thompson

The Kingdom of God is among You: Prospects for a Q Community
Sarah Rollens

An Imminent Parousia and Christian Mission: Did the New Testament Writers Really Expect Jesus’ 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-Nelson

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

Part 4 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

Index of Modern Authors
Index of Ancient Sources

Über Autor(innen)

Stanley E. Porter, Ph.D. (1988), University of Sheffield, is President, Dean, and Professor of New Testament at McMaster Divinity College, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. He is the author of nearly thirty books and the editor of over eighty volumes.

Andrew W. Pitts, Ph.D. (2014), McMaster Divinity College, is an independent scholar. He is working on a monograph on Greco-Roman historiography and the Gospels.

Contributors are: Warren Carter, John DelHousaye, Hans Förster, Christoph Heilig, Catherine Hezser, Matthew Jensen, F. Stanley Jones, Mark Keown, Michael R. Licona, Darian Lockett, Matthew R. Malcolm, Stephen J. Patterson, Nicholas Perrin, Andrew W. Pitts, Stanley E. Porter,
E. Randolph Richards, Susan M. Rieske, Sarah E. Rollens, Clare K. Rothschild, Judith Stack-Nelson, Beth M. Stovell, Steven Thompson, Adam Winn, Adam Z. Wright