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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 audience.
Even as Christian populations grew, distrust and persecution by their Roman rulers forced the early church to stay out of the public eye. The situation changed in 313 A.D. when the emperor Constantine made Christianity a licit religion of the Roman Empire. With this acceptance came the construction of large public buildings, or churches, to ...
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 ...
Photo in public domain. In sum, the archaeological evidence for observance of the laws of the Torah in the daily lives of ordinary Judeans seems to situate the origins of Judaism around the middle of the second century BCE. To delve into the intricacies of the textual and archaeological evidence for widespread observance of the laws of the ...
James Tabor. Dr. James Tabor is a retired Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte where he taught Christian origins and ancient Judaism for thirty-three years, serving as Chair of the Department for a decade. His Ph.D. is from the University of Chicago.
Robert Campin’s Marriage of the Virgin dramatically captures the split of early Christianity and Judaism. Scala/Art Resource, NY. Christianity and Judaism, two of the world’s major religions, shared the same foundation—ancient Judaism. The two religions, however, eventually split in a series of partings, becoming two separate entities.
By: Sarah Yeomans. Living in the Greco-Roman world, early Christians were able to draw from a set of rich artistic paradigms when they set out to depict their stories and beliefs in decorative contexts. This often led to the assimilation of well-established pagan artistic styles and images into early Christian art.
Biblical scholar David Christian Clausen explored these and other questions in his recent Biblical Archaeology Review article, “ Five Myths About the Apostle Paul.”. In this Web Exclusive, two Pauline scholars, Ben Witherington III of Asbury Theological Seminary and Nijay Gupta of Northern Seminary, weigh in on the debate and provide their ...
This article was originally published in November 2012 on Dr. James Tabor’s popular Taborblog, a site that discusses and reports on “‘All things biblical’ from the Hebrew Bible to Early Christianity in the Roman World and Beyond.” Bible History Daily republished the article in 2012, with consent of the author.
The Manichaeans believed that before the fall, Adam and Eve did not toil like humans today, but rather sang and praised God like the angels. Thus, these Christian monks had shed the bonds of physical labor and practiced a more spiritual angelic labor. They viewed the prayers they offered for all people as spiritual labor, worthy of tithes and ...