- Description
- 1 online resource (viii, 261 pages) : illustrations, plans
- Summary
- How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus's prophecy - "The Kingdom of God is at hand!"--They were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians. In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group's hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement's midcentury missions, to the city's fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Reproduction (note)
- Contents
- Prologue -- Up to Jerusalem -- God's holy mountain -- From miracle to mission -- Beginning from Jerusalem -- The ends of the ages -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Timeline -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Indexes.
- ISBN
- 9780300240740
- LCCN
- OCLC
- Author
Fredriksen, Paula, author.
- Title
When Christians were Jews : the first generation / Paula Fredriksen.
- Publisher
New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]
- Copyright Date
©2018
- Type of Content
text
- Type of Medium
computer
- Type of Carrier
online resource
- Digital File Characteristics
text file
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
- Source of description
Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed October 24, 2018).
- Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. New Haven : Yale University Press, 2018. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 2009 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
586 B.C.-600 A.D.
- Other Form:
Print version: Fredriksen, Paula. When Christians were Jews. New Haven : Yale University Press, [2018] 0300190514 (DLC) 2018937826 (OCoLC)1028939651
- Other Standard Identifier
9780300190519
- Branch Call Number
eNYPL BOOK
