About this title: The world's foremost expert and best-selling author on the historical Jesus brilliantly illuminates how the Jesus movement was "resurrected" as Christianity by his companions, who made their revolutionary vision and program into a compelling reality.
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Edition: First Paperback Edition; First Printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne, New York
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780060616601ISBN:0060616601
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: HarperOne
Date Published: 1999-02
ISBN-13:9780060616601ISBN:0060616601
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harperone
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780060616601ISBN:0060616601
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Edition: First Printing
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco, San Francisco
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780060616595ISBN:0060616598
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Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Harperone
Date Published: 1999
ISBN-13:9780060616601ISBN:0060616601
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: HarperSanFrancisco 1998
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780060616595ISBN:0060616598
Description: ISBN 0060616598. Hardback. First Printing. Very Good condition book, with some browning to edges of interior pages, in a Very Good condition dustjacket with minor rubs and creases around its edges. Tight, sound copy with highlighting in yellow on first few pages of book. $30.00 original price is present and unclipped on front flap of dustjacket. read more
"You don't have to agree with all of Crossan's conclusions to see that THIS is how you study early Christianity - through anthropology, archaealogy, textual criticism, etc. etc.
Read this book only if you are very, very, very interested in what may have happened in between Jesus' life and the letters of Paul. At times it is fascinating (studying oral tradition of different cultures, memory studies, textual criticism, etc.). At times it is really detailed and boring - but that's only because Crossan tirelessly explains his methodology. Interesting stuff - I read it over a few months."
"The questions he addresses are certainly very interesting and challenging. Little is known about the earliest years of Christianity: the 30s and 40s. Once we reach the 50s we have the letters of Paul, but what was happening before that time? There are no directly relevant documents for those early years; hence Crossan's 'interdisciplinary' approach, including a consideration of the reliability of oral testimony. And some fairly revolutionary ideas emerge; revolutionary, that is, from a conventional Christian standpoint. So we need to keep in mind that Crossan is no atheist or agnostic; he is, in fact, an Irish Roman Catholic, though certainly an unusual one."
"It is long and thorough, something that delights a scholar's heart. But in the end, too much details that do not go anywhere. As if it were a first draft that needs much tightening."
"A very detailed treatment by one of the foremost scholars of the historical Jesus movement. I disagree with his conclusions, and many of his assumptions, but he provides you with the data he bases his views on, so you can form your own opinion. Very transparent, confident scholarship."
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