RELS 131 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Migration Period, Rabbinic Judaism, Modus Operandi

• School: Queen's University
• Department: Religious Studies
• Course: RELS 131
• Professor: John H.Young

Document Summary

Born a few years before the beginning of the common era. Itinerant religious leader who gathered followers around him. Crucial to remember that jesus was born, lived, and died a jew; christianity"s jewish roots shape its beginning and early development (central to remember) Christ means messiah in hebrew and is a title given to jesus not his last name. Jesus" immediate followers believed he was the long-promised messiah (the christ) of the judaism he rose from the dead after his crucifixion by the roman authorities they were to share this news with others. Jesus" followers initially seen as a sect or group of palestinian jews. Key leaders in palestine james (brother or cousin, definitely related by blood to jesus), peter. Jerusalem is the centre for the christian movement. Christian expansion outside judea begins in the late 30s or early 40s c. e.