Theos-Talk Archives (January 2006 Message tt00112)

>From Jesus to Christ --- The First Christians: PBS website, video & 
book 

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A period of forty years separates the death of Jesus from the 
writing of the first gospel. History offers us little direct 
evidence about the events of this period, but it does suggest that 
the early Christians were engaged in one of the most basic of human 
activities: story-telling. 

In the words of Mike White, "It appears that between the death of 
Jesus and the writing of the first gospel, Mark, that they clearly 
are telling stories. They're passing on the tradition of what 
happened to Jesus, what he stood for and what he did, orally, by 
telling it and retelling it. And in the process they are defining 
Jesus for themselves."
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Read more at:

http://blavatskyarchives.com/from_jesus_to_christ.htm

Daniel
http://hpb.cc