New Studies into the Origins Of Christianity

Introduction What is this?

The Jesus of Faith and the Jesus of History Don't get me wrong.

Assumptions Where I am coming from.

Robin Hood A similar search with similar problems

Brief Background Information

The Old Testament Brief background information

The Sadducees The official Judaism of the temple in Jerusalem.

The Pharisees The other main branch of Judaism.

Between the Testaments The century before the Crucifixion

The Emergence of Jewish Christianity from Judaism

The Christianity before Jesus Christianity derived entirely from the Old Testament.

The Kingdom of God Movement What Jesus taught.

The Political Jesus The creation of an armed force and its movement toward Jerusalem.

The Political Jesus Part 2. Death in Jerusalem.

The Jewish War (mid 60's to mid 70's AD) War with Rome.

The Jewish War and The Book of Revelation Those 'End Times' not these 'End Times'.

The Ebionites Later descriptions of the Jewish Christians.

Post War Jewish/Christian Friction

The Emergence of Gentile Christianity from Jewish Christianity

The Apostle Paul Christianity's first great heretic?.

Two Christian Traditions The differences between the Jewish and Gentile Christians.

Going too far, the Emergence of Gnosticism from Gentile Christianity

Early Gnosticism (circa 40-90 AD)
John

Marcion (circa 140 AD) Acts of the Apostles and the Epistle to the Galatians

Later Gnosticism
Valentinus

The New Revelation The End of the Road.

Bibliography

Return to Bible Topics of Interest

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