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.
Abstract
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