The Rediscovery of Jewish Christianity

Scholars of the Bible and of early modern history reconstruct the origins of British scholarship into early Christianity before it spread beyond Jews. Primarily they challenge the conventional notion that the field of study was initiated by F. C. Baur in his 1831 essay "Christ party," in light of the recent publication of a corrected text of John Toland's Nazarenus (1718). They set out the background of the Jewish origins of Christianity in English literature from Elizabeth I to Nazarenus, examine Toland's work, and trace the study of Jewish Christianity from him through Thomas Morgan's The Moral Philosopher to Baur. The Society of Biblical Literature publishes the paperbound edition; Brill publishes the hardbound. Annotation c2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

F. Stanley Jones is Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Director of the Institute for the Study of Judaeo-Christian Origins at California State University, Long Beach. He has published widely on the subject of Jewish Christianity, including An Ancient Jewish Christian Source on the History of Christianity: Pseudo-Clementine "Recognitions" 1.27–71 (Scholars Press/Society of Biblical Literature) and Pseudoclementina Elchasaiticaque inter Judaeochristiana: Collected Studies (Peeters).