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Christian origins

by Jonathan Knight

Cover of Christian origins

This is an introductory account of the emergence of Christianity as we know it today. Dealing with the Jewish background to Jesus and such crucial issues as the Synoptic problem, it provides a detailed account of the developing church up until the rise of the Gnostic movement in the second century.

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