The Birth of Christianity (1998 Crossan), book

The Birth of Christianity: Discovering What Happened in the Years Immediately after the Execution of Jesus (1998) is a book by John Dominic Crossan.

Editions and translations

Published in San Francisco, CA: HarperSanFrancisco, 1998.

Table of contents

• Preface: The Lost Years
• Prologue: The Content of Your Vision
• Part I: Continuation and Reconstruction
  • 1. Voices of the First Outsiders
  • 2. Reconstructing Earliest Christianity
• Part II: Memory and Orality
  • 3. The Mystique of Oral Tradition
  • 4. Does Memory Remember?
  • 5. A Tale of Two Professors
  • 6. Chasm or Interface?
• Part III: Gospels and Sources
  • 7. Admitting Gospel Presuppositions
  • 8. Relating Gospel Contents
  • 9. Comparing Gospel Manuscripts
• Part IV: Methodology and Anthropology
  • 10. The Problem of Methodology
  • 11. Cross-Cultural Anthropology
• Part V: History and Archaeology
  • 12. Judeo-Roman History
  • 13. Galilean Archaeology
• Part VI: Kingdom and Eschatology
  • 14. A Comparison of Two Early Gospels
  • 15. Apocalyptic and Ascetical Eschatology
  • 16. Ethical Eschatology
• Part VII: Healers and Itinerants
  • Prologue: The Meaning of Healing
  • 17. Negating Apocalyptic Eschatology
  • 18. Affirming Ethical Eschatology
  • Epilogue: The Social Status of Jesus
• Part VIII: Teachers and Householders
  • 19. Criticizing the Householders
  • 20. Controlling the Itinerants
  • 21. Interpreting the Commands
  • 22. A Divided Tradition
• Part IX: Meal and Community
  • 23. The Common Meal Tradition
  • 24. Communities of Resistance
• Part X: Story and Tradition
  • 25. The Other Passion-Resurrection Story
  • 26. Exegesis, Lament, and Biography
• Epilogue: The Character of Your God
• Appendixes

External links

• Google Books (partial text)