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A Myth of Innocence: Mark and Christian Origins is unavailable, but you can change that!

Throughout the centuries, scholars and theologians have studied, searched, and debated the origin of Christianity in the historical Jesus. In this volume, author Burton L. Mack “reconstruct[s] the outline of the social situations that gave rise to the Gospels” to “show how the picture of Christian origins might change with a single shift in perspective on the social history documented by the...

very big problem indeed. It was that situation which, most probably, was fresh in Mark’s mind when he wrote his gospel.14 The term Jesus movement has been used for those groups that kept the memory of Jesus alive and thought of themselves in terms of Jewish reform. Five types have been distinguished and their differences from one another have been underlined. In actuality the situation may have been a bit more fluid, with some overlapping of people, ideas, activities,
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