The Rediscovery of Jewish Christianity

This focused collection of essays by international scholars first uncovers the roots of the study of ancient Jewish Christianity in the Enlightenment in early eighteenth-century England then explores why and how this rediscovery of Jewish Christianity set off the entire modern historical debate over Christian origins. Finally it examines in detail how this critical impulse made its way to Germany eventually to flourish in the nineteenth century under F. C. Baur and the Tbingen School. Included is a facsimile reproduction of John Toland s seminal Nazarenus (1718) which launched the modern study of Jewish Christianity. The contributors are F. Stanley Jones David Lincicum Pierre Lurbe Matt Jackson-McCabe and Matti Myllykoski.