Disciples: How Jewish Christianity Shaped Jesus and Shattered the Church - Hardcover

Akers, Keith

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1947826530 ISBN 13: 9781947826533

Publisher: Apocryphile Press, 2013

Synopsis

A book about the disciples of Jesus would typically start with Jesus himself: first there was Jesus, then he had disciples. This book suggests a fundamentally different story: first there was a movement, then Jesus emerged as its leader. This movement was markedly different from both rabbinic Judaism and gentile Christianity. It became known to history as "Jewish Christianity"-Jews who followed both Jesus (as they understood him) and the Jewish law (as they understood it). These first disciples affirmed simple living, nonviolence, and vegetarianism, and rejected wealth, war, and animal sacrifices. Some two decades after Jesus was crucified, they split with their most famous missionary, Paul, over the issues of vegetarianism and eating meat from animal sacrifices. The history of Jewish Christianity takes our understanding of Christian origins into a completely new realm.

About this edition

• Publisher: Apocryphile Press
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1947826530
• ISBN 13: 9781947826533
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 312