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Here is a brief and highly readable history of early Christianity. Etienne Trocme spares us references to the jungle of secondary literature and with a lifetime's experience of New Testament studies cuts short long discussions of might-have-beeps. With a sure eye to lines of development, he paints a fascinating picture of the world of the first Christians. Simply basing himself on the New Testament, he nevertheless shows how much experimentation and conflict there was to begin with. He emphasizes the initial close relations between Christians and Jews and the shock to Christianity when...

This book, based on Passiontide Lectures delivered at Lincoln Theological College, suggests why it is that we have several accounts of the sufferings and death of Jesus, and investigates what the original passion narrative might have been. Its concern is not, however, with a reconstruction of the historical episodes of the trial and execution of Jesus. Rather, it seeks to recreate the response of the earliest Christians in their amazed contemplation of God's saving act in Christ.