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Hal Taussig is a professor of biblical literature and early Christianity, a pastor, a founding member of the Jesus Seminar, and the author of fourteen books. He teaches doctoral and master's studies at Union Theological Seminary in New York and the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College.
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A New New Testament: A Bible for the 21st Century Combining Traditional and Newly Discovered Texts (2013) 168 exemplaren
After Jesus Before Christianity: A Historical Exploration of the First Two Centuries of Jesus Movements (2021) — Auteur — 84 exemplaren
In the Beginning Was the Meal: Social Experimentation and Early Christian Identity (2009) 25 exemplaren
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Stones, bones, and the sacred : essays on material culture and ancient religion in honor of Dennis E. Smith (2016) — Medewerker — 6 exemplaren
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After Jesus, Before Christianity emerged from an ongoing, multi-year study group that sought to identify, discuss, and research what we might call "pre-Christian Jesus texts." They open by observing that too many histories of the Christian church are retrospective, how-we-got-here tales ending in the Christianity(ies) of our time—rather like those charts of early homonids that make "modern man" seem foreordained in the fossil record. But in theology as in evolution, contingency is everything. There are any number of possible evolutionary "trees" (Darwin advocated for the image of a bush, growing in multiple directions, not a tree moving steadily upward). There are also any number of possible Christianities, including "Christianities" that remained "Judaism" and Christianities that are nothing like the various forms of the faith that exist today.
So the group behind After Jesus, Before Christianity began with the earliest texts it could find, moving forward through history, examining both commonalities and differences. (Surprise! There are many more differences than commonalities.) Using the body of noncanonical texts and the better known canonical ones, they've identified six recurring themes in the religious communities that sprung up in the two centuries after Jesus. None of these is shared by all groups, but they emerge often enough to give some sense of the various Jesus faiths that existed in the immediate aftermath of Jesus' life. These are—
• resistance to the Roman Empire
• challenging of gender norms
• the creation of families of choice, rather than biological families
• identification with Israel
• diverse organizational structures
• persisting oral traditions
This makes for fascinating, genuinely thought-provoking reading. I can't attest to the scholarly accuracy of each of the book's claims, but most of them seem reasonable enough and grounded in specific textual examples. On the other hand, one discussion moves from the Gospel of John to John's Revelation without noting that these are almost certainly not the same "John." So, read and enjoy, but, as Sue Monk Kidd suggests in the introduction, treat this material as interesting questions, not a definitive history.
I received a free electronic ARC of this title for review purposes; the opinions are my own.… (meer)