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04 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
Development and Diversity in Early Christianity	D. Jeffrey Bingham - Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society (Mar 2006)
Josephus on Jesus	Paul L. Maier
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
Encyclopedia of Early Church History	The Ecole Initiative
Josephus’ Writings and Their Relation to the New Testament	Greg Herrick, Ph.D.
Life of St. Paul	James Stalker
Not One Stone Left Upon Another: The fall of Jerusalem	Paul L. Maier
Pauline Studies	Barry D. Smith
Pauline Studies - The Paul Project	Reggie Kidd - Includes: (1) Background; (2) Life; (3) Epistles; (4) Theology; (5) Impact; (6) Bibliographies and (7) Links.
Perspective on the World of Jesus	Mahlon H. Smith - Phenomenal resource for Jewish and Early Church History.
The Character of Paul	Charles Edward Jefferson
The Life of Jesus	Barry D. Smith
The New Testament and Its Context	Barry D. Smith
The Pre-Christian Paul	Barry D. Smith - What was Paul before his conversion and how was he converted?