RE: What were Jesus and early Christians like?
March 10, 2015 at 8:08 am
(This post was last modified: March 10, 2015 at 8:08 am by GrandizerII.)
(March 10, 2015 at 8:05 am)watchamadoodle Wrote: @Nestor, one book I have considered reading is "The Jewish Gospels" by Daniel Boyarin. His ideas are on the fringes, but he is a real historian and not just somebody who wrote a book. Boyarin claims that weird Christian ideas like the trinity and the resurrection existed in some Jewish sects before the time of Jesus.
I find the Trinity part hard to believe only because, as far as I know, the Trinity wasn't even part of the early Christians' beliefs in the first century.