Foreword 1. Introduction When to Stop? A Fragmentary StorySources - The Pauline Letters - The Book of Acts 2. The First Beginnings Appearances of the Risen Jesus Regrouping in Jerusalem? Pentecost A Jewish Group? 3. Stephen and His Group 'Hebrews' and 'Hellenists' The Problem and It's Solution Stephen The Outbreak of Persecution 4. The Spread of Christianity Samaria Antioch Peter and Cornelius Peter 5. Paul-The Hidden Years The Pre-Christian Paul The Conversion of PaulreturnBefore the Conference in Jerusalem 6. Agreement and Strife Pauline Chronology - Acts and galatians - An Absoloute Chronology 7. Paul the Missionary The Course of Paul's Missionary work The Nature of the Pauline Communities The Problems of the Pauline Communities The Collection 8. Judaizing Christianity James Writings of a Judaizing Christianity The Jerusalem Church 9. Pauline Christianity afetr Paul A Pauline School or Pauline Schools? 'Early Catholicism'? 10 Johanine Christianity 11. The Church in the Roman Empire Postscript Abbreviations Select Bibliography 1Primary Sources 2 Reference Work 3 Geberal Works on the History of Earliest Chrstianity 4 Other secondary Literature Index of Primary Sources Old Testament Other Jewish Sources New Testament Other Early Christian Literature and Gnostic Sources Other Graeco-Roman Literature and Sources Index of Authors (Secondary Literature) Index of Subjects