When Christians Were Jews cover art

When Christians Were Jews

The First Generation

 Preview
Try Premium Plus free
Pick 1 audiobook a month from our unmatched collection - including bestsellers and new releases.
Unlimited access to our all-you-can-listen catalogue of 15K+ audiobooks and podcasts
Access exclusive sales and deals.
£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically.

When Christians Were Jews

By: Paula Fredriksen
Narrated by: Matthew Lloyd Davies
Try Premium Plus free

£8.99/month after 30 days. Renews automatically. See here for eligibility.

Buy Now for £18.99

Buy Now for £18.99

About this listen

A compelling account of Christianity’s Jewish beginnings, from one of the world’s leading scholars of ancient religion

How did a group of charismatic, apocalyptic Jewish missionaries, working to prepare their world for the impending realization of God's promises to Israel, end up inaugurating a movement that would grow into the gentile church? Committed to Jesus’s prophecy - “The Kingdom of God is at hand!” - they were, in their own eyes, history's last generation. But in history's eyes, they became the first Christians.

In this electrifying social and intellectual history, Paula Fredriksen answers this question by reconstructing the life of the earliest Jerusalem community. As her account arcs from this group’s hopeful celebration of Passover with Jesus, through their bitter controversies that fragmented the movement’s midcentury missions, to the city’s fiery end in the Roman destruction of Jerusalem, she brings this vibrant apostolic community to life. Fredriksen offers a vivid portrait both of this temple-centered messianic movement and of the bedrock convictions that animated and sustained it.

©2018 Paula Fredriksen. (P)2018 Brilliance Publishing, Inc., all rights reserved. Ancient Christianity History Judaism Religious Studies Middle East
All stars
Most relevant
Could have a negative impact on your faith in who Jesus was and is. A great deal of the author’s opinion on what happened after the crucifixion.

Disappointing

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
This was a critique of the bible, not what I was expecting...so title misleading. struggled with this book.

When Jews were Christians

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.
The narrator's voice is okay nut his reading style is horrendous, horrible! Yuck! He starts low moving high, then pauses and growls the last word, it's soooo irritating! You'll want to bore your ear drums out with a Black and Decker!

The awful and formulaic tone of the narrator- horrendous!

Something went wrong. Please try again in a few minutes.