After Jesus, Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements...

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Erin Vearncombe Brandon Scott

After Jesus, Before Christianity

A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements

Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig , The Westar Institute

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HarperCollins
12 May 2022

From the creative minds of the scholarly group behind the groundbreaking Jesus Seminar comes this provocative and eye-opening look at the roots of Christianity that offers a thoughtful reconsideration of the first two centuries of the Jesus movement, transforming our understanding of the religion and its early dissemination.

Christianity has endured for more than two millennia and is practiced by billions worldwide today. Yet that longevity has created difficulties for scholars tracing the religion’s roots, distorting much of the historical investigation into the first two centuries of the Jesus movement. But what if Christianity died in the fourth or fifth centuries after it began How would that change how historians see and understand its first two hundred years

Considering these questions, three Bible scholars from the Westar Institute summarize the work of the Christianity Seminar and its efforts to offer a new way of thinking about Christianity and its roots. Synthesizing the institute’s most recent scholarship—bringing together the many archaeological and textual discoveries over the last twenty years—they have found:

There were multiple Jesus movements, not a singular one, before the fourth century There was nothing called Christianity until the third century There was much more flexibility and diversity within Jesus’s movement before it became centralized in Rome, not only regarding the Bible and religious doctrine, but also understandings of gender, sexuality and morality.

Exciting and revolutionary, After Jesus Before Christianity provides fresh insights into the real history behind how the Jesus movement became Christianity.

After Jesus Before Christianity includes more than a dozen black-and-white images throughout.

By: Erin Vearncombe, Brandon Scott, Hal Taussig, The Westar Institute
Imprint: HarperCollins
Country of Publication: United States
ISBN: 9780063062153
ISBN 10: 0063062151
Pages: 368
Publication Date: 12 May 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

The Westar Institute is a member organization of Bible scholars. It gained notoriety with the Jesus Seminar--where scholars voted on which sayings from Jesus were authentic. The institute holds numerous scholarly gatherings at the Society for Biblical Literature which draws 20,000 Bible scholars each November. Hal Taussig recently retired as Professor of New Testament at Union Theological Seminary in New York. He lectures around the country and world. He is a United Methodist minister, the editor of the award-winning A New New Testament, and the author of fourteen books, his work has been featured in the New York Times, Time magazine, People, Newsweek, and the Washington Post, and on The Daily Show, National Public Radio, the Brian Lehrer Show on WNYC, the Bob Edwards show on Sirius Radio, and the History Channel. Bernard Brandon Scott is the author and editor of many books, including The Real Paul: Recovering His Radical Challenge and The Trouble with Resurrection. A charter member of the Jesus Seminar, he is chair of Westar's newly established Christianity Seminar. He holds an A.B. from St. Meinrad Seminary and School of Theology, an M.A. from Miami University, and a Ph.D. from Vanderbilt University. He lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Erin Vearncomb completed her Ph.D. at the University of Toronto and is currently a Lecturer in the Princeton Writing Program at Princeton University. She lives in Princeton, New Jersey.

Reviews for After Jesus, Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements

This book is a work of genius. You are about to read a book that possesses the potential to rewrite history. --Sue Monk Kidd, bestselling author of The Dance of the Dissident Daughter and The Secret Life of Bees