John Dominic Crossan explores the lost years of earliest Christianity, the years immediately following Jesus' execution.
He establishes the contextual setting through a combination of literary, anthropological, historical and archaeological approaches. He challenges the assumptions about the role of Paul and the meaning of resurrection, and forges a new understanding of the birth of the Christian church.
Here is a vivid account of early Christianity's interaction with the world around it, and of the new traditions and communities established as Jesus' companions continued their movement after his death.
- ISBN10 0061978159
- ISBN13 9780061978159
- Publish Date 6 July 2010 (first published 24 March 1998)
- Publish Status Active
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc
- Imprint HarperOne
- Format eBook
- Pages 688
- Language English