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- The Origin of Christianity - Biblical Archaeology Society
To understand the origin of Christianity, one must begin with the population of Jewish Christians who lived during Jesus’ lifetime
- When Did Christianity Begin to Spread? - Biblical Archaeology Society
How old is Christianity? When did it stop being a Jewish sect and become its own religion? As reported in “Crossing the Holy Land” in the September October 2011 issue of Biblical Archaeology Review, new archaeological discoveries of churches are crucial to helping answer those questions But when did Christians begin to build these churches?
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- Was Jesus a Jew? - Biblical Archaeology Society
Was Jesus a Jew? Some people claim that Jesus was a Christian Some have claimed that he was an Aryan Christian But in recent decades scholars have been returning to ancient historical settings and discovering the Jewish Jesus Anthony J Saldarini’s Bible Review article “What Price the Uniqueness of Jesus?” cautions against wrenching Jesus out of his Jewish world
- The Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament
Since Christianity began as a sect of Judaism, the scrolls are very important for understanding the earliest Christians and their writings—the New Testament The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in the caves by Qumran, a site in the Judean Wilderness on the west side of the Dead Sea
- The Antonine Plague and the Spread of Christianity
The Antonine Plague and the Spread of Christianity The Antonine Plague overturned the status quo in the second century, C E Did this lead to the spread of Christianity?
- The Split of Early Christianity and Judaism
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
- The Nag Hammadi Codices and Gnostic Christianity
Until the discovery of the Nag Hammadi codices in 1945, the Gnostic view of early Christianity had largely been forgotten The teachings of Gnostic Christianity —vilified especially since they were declared heretic by orthodox Christianity in the fourth century—had been virtually erased from history by the early church fathers, their gospels banned and even burned to make room for the view
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