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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...

great the continuity with what went before, there is, nevertheless, a recognizable new start here, and all would grant that the movement gets going again under new presuppositions, unless they wish to deny that it was in any way the same movement. If one accepts that what got going was in some sense a continuation of the former movement, then it is to be expected that there are aspects of the life and thought of the renewed or reborn movement which are most easily to be explained by recourse to their
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