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03) The Birth of the Church (6 BC - AD 70)

To understand the Christ of Christianity we must first understand Jesus the Jew along with the historical particularities, sometimes termed “scandalous,” into which incarnate God purposefully stepped.
A. Orendorff

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Title	Notes
Pauline Studies	Barry D. Smith
St. Paul in Macedonia (.pdf)	F.F. Bruce, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester 61.2 (1979): 337-354.
Josephus on Jesus	Paul L. Maier
Pauline Studies - The Paul Project	Reggie Kidd - Includes: (1) Background; (2) Life; (3) Epistles; (4) Theology; (5) Impact; (6) Bibliographies and (7) Links.
The Character of Paul	Charles Edward Jefferson
The Pre-Christian Paul	Barry D. Smith - What was Paul before his conversion and how was he converted?
Life of St. Paul	James Stalker
The Life of Jesus	Barry D. Smith
The New Testament and Its Context	Barry D. Smith
Early New Testament History Parts 3 & 4	Doug Heck - Judaea Under Roman Governors and The High Priests during New Testament times. Hasidim, the Pharisees, the Sadducees, the Essenes, and the Zealots Jesus and the Kingdom of God and the Kingdoms of the world
Perspective on the World of Jesus	Mahlon H. Smith - Phenomenal resource for Jewish and Early Church History.
Josephus’ Writings and Their Relation to the New Testament	Greg Herrick, Ph.D.
Encyclopedia of Early Church History	The Ecole Initiative
Not One Stone Left Upon Another: The fall of Jerusalem	Paul L. Maier
Eusebius: Church History	Eusebius
Christianity under Claudius (.pdf)	F. F. Bruce
St. John at Ephesus (.pdf)	F. F. Bruce
Jerusalem, the Mother Church: The development of the apostolic church from the perspective of Jerusalem (.pdf)	P.H.R. (Rob) van Houwelingen, Sárospataki Füzetek 16.3-4 (2012): 11-22.