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In this “compulsively readable exploration of the tangled world of Christian origins” (Publishers Weekly), religious historian James Tabor illuminates the earliest years of Jesus’ teachings before Paul shaped them into the religion we know today.
This fascinating examination of the earliest years of Christianity reveals how the man we call St. Paul shaped Christianity as we know it today.
Historians know almost nothing about the two decades following the crucifixion of Jesus, when his followers regrouped and began to spread his message. During this time Paul joined the movement and began to preach to the gentiles. Using the oldest Christian documents that we have—the letters of Paul—as well as other early Christian sources, historian and scholar James Tabor reconstructs the origins of Christianity. Tabor shows how Paul separated himself from Peter and James to introduce his own version of Christianity, which would continue to develop independently of the message that Jesus, James, and Peter preached.
Paul and Jesus illuminates the fascinating period of history when Christianity was born out of Judaism.
This fascinating examination of the earliest years of Christianity reveals how the man we call St. Paul shaped Christianity as we know it today.
Historians know almost nothing about the two decades following the crucifixion of Jesus, when his followers regrouped and began to spread his message. During this time Paul joined the movement and began to preach to the gentiles. Using the oldest Christian documents that we have—the letters of Paul—as well as other early Christian sources, historian and scholar James Tabor reconstructs the origins of Christianity. Tabor shows how Paul separated himself from Peter and James to introduce his own version of Christianity, which would continue to develop independently of the message that Jesus, James, and Peter preached.
Paul and Jesus illuminates the fascinating period of history when Christianity was born out of Judaism.
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INDEX
Page numbers beginning on 241 refer to endnotes.
Abba, 117–18, 143, 144
Abel, 192
Abraham, 109
Acts:
1:3–4, 87
1:9–10, 90
1:13–14, 32
1:21–26, 217
1:22, 136
2:38, 137
4:36, 215
5:33–39, 234
5:36, 243
7:54–8:1, 232
9:1–19, 232
9:11, 232
9:20, 254
9:26–28, 92
9:27, 215
9:30, 232
10:1–2, 261
11:22, 215
11:25–26, 215
11:25, 232
11:26, 145
12:1–2, 245
13:15, 254
13:16, 261
13:26, 261
13:43, 261
13:45, 234
13:50, 261
15, 210
15:13–21, 33
15:19–20, 151, 262
15:19–21, 261
15:21, 254
15:39, 216
16:13–15, 257
16:14, 261
16:37, 232
17:4, 261
17:17, 261
17:32, 61
18:1–3, 263
18:3, 232
18:7, 261
18:12, 234
18:24–25, 137
19:1–7, 138
19:6, 258
20:9–12, 56
20:23, 257
21:17–26, 34
21:18–26, 245
21:18, 33
21:20–21, 211
21:38, 243
21:39, 232
22:3, 232
22:3–11, 232
22:27–28, 232
23:6, 59
23:12, 234
23:16, 232
23:27, 232
24:5, 246
24:24, 256
26:12–18, 232
28:23–28, 207
apostolic feud in, 202, 211–12, 215–16, 221
Arabian journey’s omission in, 92
baptism variations in, 137–...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Map: The World of Paul
- Timeline of Major Events and Figures
- Preface: Discovering Paul
- Introduction: Paul and Jesus
- One: Christianity Before Paul
- Two: Rethinking Resurrection of the Dead
- Three: Reading the Gospels in the Light of Paul
- Four: Last but not Least
- Five: A Cosmic Family and a Heavenly Kingdom
- Six: A Mystical Union with Christ
- Seven: Already but not Yet
- Eight: The Torah of Christ
- Nine: The “Battle of the Apostles”
- Appendix: The Quest for the Historical Paul
- Acknowledgments
- About James D. Tabor
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright