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CONTENTS
1. INTRODUCTION 1
2. HISTORY AND THE NEW TESTAMENT 5
Christianity and the rise of historical consciousness 5
Past and future in the New Testament 7
The rise of modern historiography 8
The sources for earliest Christianity 8
The 'apostolic age' and the 'apostolic writings' 10
The problem of 'origins' in modern historiography 11
The critical function of historiography 11
The social history of earliest Christianity: reading
between the lines 		12
Historical criticism and the testimony of religious writers 13
Ancient historiography 14
The problem of source material 15
The problem of canonicity 16
Fundamentalism and exaggerated scepticism 16
Historical affirmations and faith affirmations 18
Dating the New Testament books 22
New Testament references to the fall of Jerusalem 23
Literary and theological evidence 25
The expectation of Jesus' return 26
Theological similarity as evidence for contemporaneity 27
The Gallio inscription 27
The dating of Luke-Acts 28
The testimony of the New Testament books to their
contemporary situation 		30
The influence of literary genre 30

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Publication Information: Book Title: The Origins of Christianity: A Historical Introduction to the New Testament. Contributors: Schuyler Brown - author. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Place of Publication: Oxford. Publication Year: 1993. Page Number: vii.
    
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