Christian Beginnings From Nazareth to Nicaea

Name: Christian Beginnings From Nazareth to Nicaea
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ISBN: 9780300191608

ISBN-10: 030019160X

ISBN-13: 9780300191608

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Authors: Geza Vermes, Penguin Books Staff

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The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding.Through a forensic, brilliant reexamination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from the man he was—a prophet recognizable as the successor to other Jewish holy men of the Old Testament—to what he came to represent: a mysterious, otherworldly being at the heart of a major new religion. As Jesus's teachings spread across the eastern Mediterranean, hammered into place…

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List price: $30.00
Publisher: Yale University Press
Publication date: 3/26/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 288
Size: 6.25" wide x 9.75" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Geza Vermes was born in Hungary in 1924, and was the first professor of Jewish studies at Oxford. He is the author of The Changing Faces of Jesusand The Authentic Gospel of Jesus.



List of Abbreviations


Map


Introduction



Charismatic Judaism from Moses to Jesus



The Charismatic Religion of Jesus



Nascent Charismatic Christianity



The Christianity of Paul



Johannine Christianity



The Didache and Barnabas



The Apostolic Fathers: 1 and 2 Clement, Ignatius, Polycarp, Hermas and Diognetus



Apologists and Theologians of the Second Century: Justin, Melito and Irenaeus



Three Pillars of Wisdom: Tertullian, Clement of Alexandria and Origen



Nicaea: Eusebius of Caesarea, Arius and Constantine



From Charisma to Dogma - A Bird's Eye View


Postscript


Select Bibliography


Index