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Primitive Christian Community
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1. Sources The primitive Christian community was the main church of NT days. Its center was the first organized ¶ group of adherents in Jerusalem (Disciples 2; New Testament Era, History of, 2.3 and 3). The most important non-NT source is the
Antiquities of Flavius Josephus (ca. 37–ca. 100), specifically 20.200 and 18.63–64, if this so-called Testamentum Flavianum or parts of it are indeed authentic. Chronological data can also be picked up from some secular texts. In the main, however, we must rely on NT sources in reconstructing the development and organization of t…
