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Garroway wonders whether “gospel” might join other English terms, such as “Christianity” and “conversion,” that have lost favor as appropriate equivalents for critical Greek words used by the Jesus movement. While conceding that such a change is not in order, he does conclude that the findings of the book call upon historians to reconsider what euangelion meant for the earliest believers in Christ. It did not refer to the message of Jesus or to the general preaching of his disciples, but rather to the embattled, controversial preaching of Paul about the salvation of Gentiles outside the Jewish Law.
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For an introduction to the phenomenon, see Runesson, “Question of Terminology,” 53–77.
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Paula Fredriksen, “Mandatory Retirement: Ideas in the Study of Christian Origins Whose Time Has Come to Go,” Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 35 (2006): 231–46.
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Steve Mason, “Jews, Judeans, Judaizing, Judaism: Problems of Categorization in Ancient History,” Journal for the Study of Judaism 38, no. 4 (2007): 1–56. On the ensuing debate over the terms, see Joshua Garroway , “Ioudaios,” in The Jewish Annotated New Testament, ed. Amy-Jill Levine, Marc Brettler (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011), 524–26; Daniel R. Schwartz, Judeans and Jews: Four Faces of Dichotomy in Ancient Jewish History (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014); and the contributions of James Crossley , Jonathan Klawans, Malcom Lowe , Annette Yoshiko Reed, Adele Reinhartz, Daniel R. Schwartz, Ruth Sheridan, and Joan Taylor in Timothy Michael Law and Charles Halton, eds., Jew and Judean: A MARGINALIA Forum on Politics and Historiography in the Translation of Ancient Texts (Marginalia Review of Books, 2014).
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Garroway, Paul’s Gentile-Jews, 2; and note the title of Eisenbaum’s Paul Was Not a Christian.
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Runesson, “Question of Terminology,” 55.
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Mason, Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins, 283.
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Mason, Josephus, Judea, and Christian Origins, 287.
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Koester, Ancient Christian Gospels, 6.
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Garroway, J.D. (2018). Conclusion. In: The Beginning of the Gospel. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-89996-1_9
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