Council Of Jerusalem: First Christian synod (c. 48–50 AD)
The Council of Jerusalem or apostolic council is a common name for a meeting of early Christian leaders reported in the Acts of the Apostles chapter 15.
The meeting must have happened about the year 50, at the latest some time before the death of James the Just in 62.
The issues
A common interpretation is that the council came together because there was disagreement within the Early Christian community between those who believed the church must observe the rules of traditional Judaism, and Paul of Tarsus, who believed there was no such necessity. The "rules of traditional Judaism," the Halakha of Rabbinic Judaism, were not finished at this time.
The central issue was circumcision, as the author of Acts relates the initial confrontation in Antioch, where Paul had been preaching:
Footnotes
Other websites
- Acts 15 Archived 2006-05-09 at the Wayback Machine
- JersualemCouncil.org Archived 2007-09-12 at the Wayback Machine
- NA26 Greek Acts 15 Archived 2019-05-30 at the Wayback Machine
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Judaizers
- Catholic Encyclopedia: Apostolic Canons
- Didache
- Apostolic Constitutions
- Didascalia Apostolorum
- Jewish Antiquities 20 Archived 2008-09-07 at the Wayback Machine
- New Perspective on Paul
- Early Christian Writings
- Jewish Encyclopedia: Hillel v. Shammai
- Jewish Encyclopedia: Didascalia
- Gentiles and Circumcision Archived 2006-06-13 at the Wayback Machine
Further reading
- Ehrman, Bart D. Lost Christianities: The Battle for Scripture and the Faiths We Never Knew 2003
- Eisenman, Robert, 1997. James the Brother of Jesus : The Key to Unlocking the Secrets of Early Christianity and the Dead Sea Scrolls. ISBN 0-670-86932-5 A cultural historian's dissenting view based on contemporary texts.
- Westerholm, Stephen. Perspectives Old and New on Paul: The "Lutheran" Paul and His Critics 2003 ISBN 0-8028-4809-5
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