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Edited by : Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts, 2018&#160;Series: Texts and Editions for New Testament Study, Volume: 12Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement explores the events, people, and writings surrounding the founding of the early Jesus movement in the mid to late first century. The essays are divided into four parts, focused upon the movement’s formation, the production of its early Gospels, description of the Jesus movement itself, and the Jewish mission and its literature. This collection of essays includes chapters by a global cast of scholars from a variety of methodological and critical viewpoints, and continues the important Early Christianity in its Hellenistic Context series. (Text by the editors)&#160;Contents :PrefaceAbbreviationsList of Contributors&#160;Christian Origins and the Establishment of the Early Jesus Movement: An Introduction - By: Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts&#160;The Formation of the Jesus Movement and Its PrecursorsJohn the Baptist in the Fourth Gospel - By: Clare K. RothschildJohn’s Baptist in Luke’s Gospel - By: John DelHousayeFrom John to Apollos to Paul: How the Baptism of John Entered the Jesus Movement - By: Stephen J. PattersonFollowers, Servants, and Traitors: The Representation of Disciples in the Synoptic Gospels and in Ancient Judaism - By: Catherine Hezser&#160;Production of Early Christian GospelsThe Pre-citation Fallacy in New Testament Scholarship and Sanders’s Tendencies of the Synoptic Tradition - By: Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. PittsWas Matthew a Plagiarist? Plagiarism in Greco-Roman Antiquity - By: E. Randolph RichardsCompositional Techniques within Plutarch and the Gospel Tradition - By: Michael R. LiconaThe Narrative Perspective of the Fourth Gospel - By: Hans FörsterAssessing the Criteria for Differentiating the Cross Gospel - By: Stanley E. Porter and Andrew W. Pitts&#160;Early Christian Descriptions of the Jesus MovementFrom Jesus to Lord and Other Contributions of the Early Aramaic-Speaking Congregation in Jerusalem - By: F. Stanley JonesDid Jesus, in the Memory of His Earliest Followers, Ever Nurse the Sick? - By: Steven ThompsonThe Kingdom of God is among You: Prospects for a Q Community - By: Sarah E. RollensAn Imminent Parousia and Christian Mission: Did the New Testament Writers Really Expect Jesus’s Imminent Return? - By: Mark KeownChristian Origins and Imperial-Critical Studies of the New Testament Gospels - By: Warren Carter“No Stone Left upon Another”: Considering Mark’s Temple Motif in Narrative and History - By: Adam WinnThe Holy Spirit as Witness of Jesus in the Canonical Gospels - By: Judith StackNew Exodus Traditions in Earliest Christianity - By: Nicholas PerrinSea Storms, Divine Rescues, and the Tribulation: The Jonah Motif in the Book of Matthew - By: Susan M. RieskeThe Parables of Jesus and Socrates - By: Adam Z. Wright&#160;The Jewish Mission and Its LiteratureWhy Have We Stopped Reading the Catholic Epistles Together? Tracing the Early Reception of a Collection - By: Darian LockettA Jewish Denial: 1 John and the Johannine Mission - By: Matthew JensenLove One Another and Love the World: The Love Command and Jewish Ethics in the Johannine Community - By: Beth M. StovellThe New Perspective (on Paul) on Peter: Cornelius’s Conversion, the Antioch Incident, and Peter’s Stance towards Gentiles in the Light of the Philosophy of Historiography - By: Christoph HeiligTradition as Interpretation: Linguistic Structure and the Citation of Scripture in 1 Peter 2:1–10 - By: Andrew W. Pitts1 Peter and the Theological Logic of Christian Familial Imagery - By: Matthew R. Malcolm