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The Earliest Christians
Jesus’s death, the resurrection claims, Paul, and the first communities.
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After the Crucifixion: How Jesus’s Followers Made Sense of His Death
Jesus’s followers expected God to restore Israel. Then Rome executed him. How did they make sense of his death? The earliest evidence points to two things: experiences they understood as appearances of the risen Jesus, and a fresh reading of Jewish scripture.
