![]() ![]() ![]() Although Jesus was a Jew among Jews who focused his ministry within a Jewish milieu, the Jewish people were themselves part of a wider world that had heavily impacted their culture and society by the time of Jesus that world would in turn eventually help shape what would become the religions of both Judaism and Christianity. The World Jesus Entered traces the roots of what would become the Christian religion during its first two centuries, from the time of Jesus to the second and third generations of Christian believers. The book uses quotes from 100's of historians, scholars and educators throughout the world-most of which head how and why scripture came into our world 3,000 years ago. ![]() With the NT, the book uses a Post-Modern viewpoint which I'm sure will cause more howls from evangelicals. With Hebrew scriptures the book uses a 'minimalist' approach to Jewish history rather than scriptural. My reasons is religion is thousands of years old and there is no one argument for the myriad of personalities that wrote out these scriptures! Also, this book is done in a 'question/answer' layout and is more aimed at the layperson rather than the scholar-although it still cites/annotates as much as possible. Unlike most books on the history of religions "Revisionist." doesn't have just one argument, rather 100's. ![]() A work nearly completed, the main thrust of this book is how pagan early religions, Judaism and later Christianity collided in the 4th century to form what we know as the Bible. ![]()
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