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This work provides a survey of the history of the earliest Christian church in the period up to the fall of Jerusalem. It concentrates on: the figure of Paul; judicious and critical use of information in the Book of Acts; Judaizing versions of Christianity; and the Johannine tradition. The author’s approach steers a middle way between an over-simplified account which fails to warn students where...

Christians died out. Or one could opt for a still later point of time, as François Vouga does when he includes the whole period up to the time of writing of the latest New Testament writings, around 150 CE.3 The first of these options is based upon a clearly recognizable cut-off point, and the second has a measure of plausibility, particularly when one chooses ‘A History of the First Christians’ as a title. The third really extends the scope of such a work as this too far, even if one recognizes
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