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When Christians Were Jews
- The First Generation
- Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
- Length: 6 hrs and 59 mins
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Summary
A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religion
How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy - “The Kingdom of God is at hand!” - they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians.
In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.
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- C
- 22-10-22
When Jews were Christians
This was a critique of the bible, not what I was expecting...so title misleading. struggled with this book.
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- Dave Anthony
- 08-10-23
Disappointing
Could have a negative impact on your faith in who Jesus was and is. A great deal of the author’s opinion on what happened after the crucifixion.
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- Sambini
- 09-08-24
The awful and formulaic tone of the narrator- horrendous!
The narrator's voice is okay nut his reading style is horrendous, horrible! Yuck! He starts low moving high, then pauses and growls the last word, it's soooo irritating! You'll want to bore your ear drums out with a Black and Decker!
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