Post by sandwiches on Jun 19, 2014 21:15:43 GMT
Interesting-sounding new book:
larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/craig-evans-new-book-from-jesus-to-the-church/
The core “storyline” of Evans’ book is the proposal that there was a “clash between the family of high priest Annas and the family of Jesus of Nazareth” that began with the arrest and execution of Jesus and then extended across the ensuing forty years or so.
Chapter 5 is where Evans focuses in detail on “the conflict between the families and followers of Jesus and Annas the high priest.” Included in his discussion is his intriguing proposal that the “rude peasant” described by Josephus, Jesus ben Ananias, who also warned of God’s looming judgement against the Temple, “was a member of the Jesus movement and rose up in protest of the murder of James” (Jesus’ brother).
It's a sensitive area, but early Christians, as both The New Testament and Josephus indicate, were perhaps more at risk from Jewish rather than Roman persecution?
larryhurtado.wordpress.com/2014/06/18/craig-evans-new-book-from-jesus-to-the-church/
The core “storyline” of Evans’ book is the proposal that there was a “clash between the family of high priest Annas and the family of Jesus of Nazareth” that began with the arrest and execution of Jesus and then extended across the ensuing forty years or so.
Chapter 5 is where Evans focuses in detail on “the conflict between the families and followers of Jesus and Annas the high priest.” Included in his discussion is his intriguing proposal that the “rude peasant” described by Josephus, Jesus ben Ananias, who also warned of God’s looming judgement against the Temple, “was a member of the Jesus movement and rose up in protest of the murder of James” (Jesus’ brother).
It's a sensitive area, but early Christians, as both The New Testament and Josephus indicate, were perhaps more at risk from Jewish rather than Roman persecution?