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Contrary to several popular works of Christian scholarship, historian Paul Barnett maintains that the first two decades of Christian history are hardly “lost years.” As he shows in this penetrating book, the period between Jesus and the earliest Christian texts is open to historical investigation, and he richly details the time and setting in which the church was born. Writing with accessible...

… there is a lingering suspicion that the topic of historicity is peculiarly the preserve of a historicist pseudo-scholarship … for apologetic ends.… This ghost ought to be laid to rest. Colin Hemer, The Book of Acts in Its Hellenistic Setting1 One concurs. This book aims primarily to investigate the early years of Christianity, rather than account for its “birth.” The investigation, however, inevitably poses questions about the impetus that gave rise
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