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Jesus Wars
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Philip Jenkins,John Philip Jenkins |
Jesus Wars reveals how official, orthodox teaching about Jesus was the product of political maneuvers by a handful of key characters in the fifth century. Jenkins argues that were it not for these co… |
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The Jesus movement
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Ekkehard W. Stegemann,Wolfgang Stegemann |
"This work by two New Testament scholars is the first comprehensive social history of the earliest churches. Integrating the historical and social data, they locate the ancient Galileans, Judeans, an… |
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Rethinking the origins of the Eucharist
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Martin D. Stringer |
The Eucharist is the central act of Christian worship. In this book Martin Stringer brings some of the scholarship associated with the sociological analysis of biblical texts into conversation with l… |
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Light from the Gentiles
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Abraham J. Malherbe |
Rather than viewing the Graeco-Roman world as the "background" against which early Christian texts should be read, Abraham J. Malherbe saw the ancient Mediterranean world as a rich ecology of diverse… |
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