In the Fullness of Time: A Historian Looks at Christmas, Easter, and the Early ChurchMaier's impressive research and brilliant insights correlate history, archaeology and the New Testament text in this classic trilogy on early Christianity. Full-color photographs and illustrations help recreate the world, the mood, the people and the events of the early years of faith. |
Contents
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THE TIME An Undatable Date | 24 |
THE PLACE A Bethlehem Grotto | 32 |
THE GUESTS Local Shepherds Distant Magi | 43 |
THE ASTRONOMY An Extraordinary Star | 51 |
THE MONSTER Herod the King | 62 |
EXECUTION At Skull Place | 164 |
THE UNANTICIPATED Easter Dawn | 179 |
EXPLANATIONS Doubts and Skepticism | 189 |
THE EVIDENCE An Empty Tomb | 195 |
TO APOSTLES The Commission | 207 |
TO JERUSALEM The Day of Pentecost | 211 |
TO JEWS The Opposition | 219 |
TO SAMARIA The Dispersion | 225 |
THE JOURNEYS Up to Jerusalem Down to Egypt | 69 |
THE FOSTER FATHER Joseph the Carpenter | 77 |
THE MOTHER Mary the Virgin | 82 |
THE CHILD Jesus of Nazareth | 87 |
MINISTRY Teaching and Healing | 97 |
FRIENDS Up to Jerusalem | 106 |
ENEMIES Intrigue and Conspiracy | 113 |
BETRAYAL A Last Supper | 122 |
ARREST In the Garden | 129 |
HEARINGS Annas and Caiaphas | 136 |
JUDGE Pontius Pilate | 145 |
JUDGMENT A Roman Trial | 154 |
TO GENTILES Peter the Rock | 231 |
TO SYRIA Saul the Fanatic | 242 |
TO ASIA MINOR Pauls First Journey | 251 |
TO CHRISTIANS Quarrels and Controversy | 261 |
TO GREECE Pauls Second Journey | 268 |
TO THE AEGEAN Pauls Third Journey | 289 |
TO MAGISTRATES Jeopardy in Jerusalem | 302 |
TO ITALY Rome and Nero | 315 |
Notes | 337 |
Index | 353 |
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