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Peter, Stephen, James, and John: Studies in Non-Pauline Diversity in the Early Church is unavailable, but you can change that!

It is plain from Paul’s writings that presentations of the Christian message other than his own were current during his apostolic career. This concise and scholarly study describes four of the non-Pauline movements in the early church, each of which can be identified with a particular leader: Peter, acknowledged leader of the apostles; Stephen and the Hellenists (Jews who spoke Greek culturally...

It is clear from all four Gospels that, out of the wider circle of his followers, Jesus selected twelve men for special training, so that they might participate in his ministry and continue as his witnesses after his departure.1 In some strands of the Synoptic record these twelve men are called “apostles”.2 This term, from the Greek apostoloi, “messengers”, probably indicates that (like its supposed Hebrew counterpart šelîhîm, “agents”)3 the
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