2024年9月12日 · In the November/December 2012 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, Dead Sea Scroll and early Christianity scholar Geza Vermes explored the origin of Christianity by examining the characteristics of the Jewish Jesus movement to see how it developed into a distinctly gentile religion. In the New Testament, Jesus only preaches to a Jewish ...

2024年6月18日 · As a result, the more one knows about Judaism during the time of Christian origins, the stronger basis we have for understanding the New Testament. And the scrolls are the most significant body of Hebrew/Aramaic literature related to a Jewish group or groups from roughly this time and thus are potentially invaluable for shedding light on the ...

2024年11月17日 · Christianity began in the 1st century in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost, ca. 30-33 C.E. (A.D.), and has existed continually ever since. Perhaps not always visibly in the eyes of the world because of times of extreme persecution, but wherever, and at whatever point of time, on this earth a disciple of Jesus Christ has lived and worshiped the ...

2018年2月21日 · This is the first of two posts written by Dr. Douglas Boin on new archaeological and historical research in the study of early Christianity, drawn from his book Coming Out Christian in the Roman World: How the Followers of Jesus Made a Place in Caesar’s Empire (Bloomsbury Press, 2015).

2024年1月16日 · Christianity and Judaism, two of the world’s major religions, shared the same foundation—ancient Judaism. The two religions, however, eventually split in a series of partings, becoming two separate entities. There is one painting that dramatically illustrates the split of early Christianity and Judaism: Robert Campin’s Marriage of the Virgin.

2022年12月26日 · Public ritual bath from the Herodian fortress at Masada, and the origins of Judaism. The massive emergence of similar pools across Judea, in accordance with the purity laws of the Torah, corresponds with the origins of Judaism in the mid-second century BCE. Photo by Talmoryair, CC BY 3.0.

2012年1月2日 · The Beginnings of Christianity attempts just that reconciliation: to unite an analysis of theological meaning with a grasp of the social worlds of the New Testament. Intellectually, this represents an innovative development in social-historical reading over the past two decades (and also makes serious demands on the reader).

2024年11月27日 · The Syriac World opens the Syriac tradition in an accessible way with chapters addressing the origins of the Syriac language and community, its distinctively Christian identity and literary heritage, and early legends about the beginnings of the Syriac Christian community. Although Syriac Christians never enjoyed the freedom of their own ...

2024年4月27日 · She holds a Masters from Harvard Divinity School and a PhD from Columbia University, and has published on a variety of topics related to the Bible, Ancient Judaism, the Origins of Christianity, and Jewish-Christian Relations, ancient and modern. Her book, Paul Was Not a Christian, has enjoyed a wide readership.

2024年4月27日 · My new book, Secret of the Savior: The Myth of the Messiah in Mark, shows how the Essenes led to Christianity. The Gospel of Mark is an allegory of the history of Israel from the Essenic point of view written in response to the fall of Jerusalem.