Illustrations -- Preface To The Second Edition -- Preface To The First Edition -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations: Serial And Journal Titles -- Short Titles Of Works Often Cited -- Introduction -- 7 The Sources For The History Of Early Christianity -- 1. Survey Of The Sources And Their Traditions -- 2. The Text Of The New Testament -- 3. Source Criticism -- 4. Problems Of Form, Tradition, Narrative, And Rhetorical Criticism -- 8 From John The Baptist To The Early Christian Church -- 1. John The Baptist -- 2. Jesus Of Nazareth -- 3. The Earliest Christian Communities -- 9 Paul -- 1. Life And Ministry To The Apostolic Council -- 2. From Antioch To Ephesus -- 3. Paul'S Stay In Ephesus -- 4. Corinth-Jerusalem-Rome -- 10. Palestine And Syria -- 1. The Tradition Of The Message Of Jesus -- 2. From The Kerygma Of The Resurrection To The Gospels Of The Church -- 3. The Johannine Circle -- 4. Jewish Christianity -- 5. Syria, The Country Of Origin Of Christian Gnosticism -- 11. Egypt -- 1. The Beginnings Of Christianity In Egypt -- 2. Egyptian Gnosticism -- 3. The Beginnings Of Catholicism -- 12. Asia, Macedonia, Greece, And Rome -- 1. The Renewal Of Apocalypticism -- 2. The Transformation Of Pauline Theology Into Ecclesiastical Doctrine -- 3. Christianity In Its Encounter With Its Social World -- Glossary -- General Index (Names, Places, Subjects) -- Biblical, Jewish, And Early Christian Writings -- Authors Discussed In The Text.