When Christians were Jews
the first generation
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Word Count
65,250 words, Guess
Page Count
261 pages
Identifiers
- ISBN-100300190514
- ISBN-139780300190519
- OCLC Control Number1028939651
- Better World Books9780300190519
- Open LibraryOL26977041M
Classifications
- DDC270.1
- LCCBR165 .F743 2018
- LCCBR165 .F74 2018
Description
How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus's prophecy - "The Kingdom of God is at hand!" - they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group's hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement's midcentury missions, to the city's fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.
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