Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea

Christian Beginnings: From Nazareth to Nicaea
Geza Vermes (Author)

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The creation of the Christian Church is one of the most important stories in the development of the world's history, but also one of the most enigmatic and little understood, shrouded in mystery and misunderstanding.

Through a forensic, brilliant reexamination of all the key surviving texts of early Christianity, Geza Vermes illuminates the origins of a faith and traces the evolution of the figure of Jesus from the man he was—a prophet recognizable as the successor to other Jewish holy men of the Old Testament—to what he came to represent: a mysterious, otherworldly being at the heart of a major new religion. As Jesus's teachings spread across the eastern Mediterranean, hammered into place by Paul, John, and their successors, they were transformed in the space of three centuries into a centralized, state-backed creed worlds away from its humble origins. Christian Beginnings tells the captivating story of how a man came to be hailed as the Son consubstantial with God, and of how a revolutionary, anticonformist Jewish subsect became the official state religion of the Roman Empire.

• Rank: #26499 in Books
• Published on: 2013-03-26
• Released on: 2013-03-04
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .0" h x .0" w x .0" l, 1.24 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 288 pages

Description #1 by eBay:

format hardback title christian beginnings from nazareth to nicaea author vermes geza penguin books ltd publisher yale univ pr publication date mar 19 2013 pages 288 binding hardcover dimensions 6 13 wx 9 25 h isbn 030019160 x subject religion christianity history description the author of the complete dead sea scrolls tells the enthralling story of early christian church s emergence atlas publishing in this deeply learned and beautifully written book geza vermes tells the enthralling story of

Description #2 by eCampus.com:

Christian Beginnings : From Nazareth to Nicaea, ISBN-13: 9780300191608, ISBN-10: 030019160X

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