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Book cover image of From Synagogue to Church: Public Services and Offices in the Earliest Christian Communities by James Tunstead Burtchaell

Authors: James Tunstead Burtchaell
ISBN-13: 9780521418928, ISBN-10: 0521418925
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: September 1992
Edition: (Non-applicable)

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Author Biography: James Tunstead Burtchaell

Book Synopsis

This important work engages with a long historical debate: were the earliest Christians under the direction of ordained ministers, or under the influence of inspired laypeople?

Table of Contents

Preface
1The Reformation: challenge to an old consensus1
2The nineteenth century: a new consensus is formulated61
3The early twentieth century: the consensus is disputed101
4The last fifty years: the consensus restated, rechallenged, reused136
5A search for a new hypothesis180
6Jewish community organization in the later Second Temple period201
7The officers of the synagogue228
8Community organization in the early Christian settlement272
9A conclusion339
Index auctorum358
Index locorum362

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