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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 ...
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 ...
Paul and Jesus: How the Apostle Transformed Christianity. By James D. Tabor (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2012), xxi + 291 pp. $26 (hardcover) Reviewed by James D.G. Dunn. This is the latest version of an old story—that Paul is the real founder of Christianity—by the author of The Jesus Dynasty. Like his predecessors, Tabor maintains that ...
Christians believe the founder of Christianity was Jesus Christ. To Christians, He is the Messiah and one of the central figures in their faith. Catholics believe Jesus ordained Peter as the first ...
Christianity was founded by a man named Saul, later named Paul and St. Paul. Others argue that Christ was the founder of Christianity, but this is not true. Jesus never called anything ...
Jesus Christ is defined as "the founder of Christianity". Regardless of whether or not Jesus was a deity, there is historical proof that He founded Christianity.
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.
Excavating Forgotten, Misrepresented, and Marginalized Figures of Earliest Christianity Led by esteemed scholars James Tabor (University of North Carolina, Charlotte) and Tina Wray (Salve Regina University), this six-session seminar features 12 thought-provoking lectures on intriguing, yet poorly known figures from the world of the New Testament.
Well, Jesus is actually the Son of God. God had a virgin become pregnant by the Holy Spirit (which only God can do) and the virgin gave birth to Jesus Christ. So, Jesus got the message, because He ...
The founder of the Christian faith is Jesus,he wasn't Christian himself (he was born into a Jewish family, he was born a Jew). He passed on the teachings of Christianity, and the word of God, to ...