The Beginnings of Christianity Part I: The Acts of the Apostles: Vol.1: Prolegomena I: The Jewish Gentile and Christian Backgrounds

includes index and biblioraphy

1. The Jewish world The Background of Jewish history ...........1 The spirt of Judaism C. G. Monteflore...........35 Varieties of Thought and Practice in Judaism the Editors ........82 The disperson ..............137 2. The Gentile World The Roman Provincial System H. T F Duckwork ..........171 Life in the Roman Empire at the Beginning of the Christian Era clifford H. Moore.............218 3. Primitive Christianity The Public Teaching of Jesus and his Choice of the Twelve the Editors .........267 The Disciples in Jerusalem and the Rise of Gentile Christianity .......300 The Development of Thought on the Spirit the Church and And Baptism .............321 Christology ..........345 4. The Beginning of Christianity