Despite the relatively recent origin of the denomination, the church seeks to stand for first-century Christianity in its faith, practices, and government.

According to Dr. Andre Lemaire, the Parisian epigrapher initially invited by antiquities dealer, Oded Golan, to view the ossuary in Golan's apartment, the cursive Aramaic script is consistent with first-century lettering.

" ( Acts 28: 14-15 ) While Walton agrees that Luke ’ s main concern is apolitical, he believes that “ there is too much politically sensitive material for this view to be tenable when Luke-Acts is read in its first-century settings, both Jewish and Greco-Roman .”

Luke is also mentioned by the Apostle Paul in some of the letters Paul wrote to first-century churches.

Along with Simon Peter and James the Just he was one of the most prominent early Christian leaders .< ref >" The Canon Debate ," McDonald & Sanders editors, 2002, chapter 32, page 577, by James D. G. Dunn: " James, the brother of Jesus, and Paul, the two other most prominent leading figures Peter < nowiki ></ nowiki > in first-century Christianity "</ ref > Fourteen epistles in the New Testament are traditionally attributed to Paul, although his authorship of seven of the fourteen is questioned by modern scholars.

* The crucifixion of Jesus: Jesus of Nazareth's death by crucifixion by Pontius Pilate ( most likely in AD 30 or 33 ), recounted in the four first-century canonical Gospels, is referred to repeatedly as something well known in the earlier letters of Saint Paul, for instance, five times in his First Letter to the Corinthians, written in AD 57 ( 1: 13, 1: 18, 1: 23, 2: 2, 2: 8 ).

Wells allows for the possibility that certain elements of the Gospel traditions might be based on a historical figure from the first-century Palestine: " he Galilean and the Cynic elements ... may contain a core of reminiscences of an itinerant Cynic-type Galilean preacher ( who, however, is certainly not to be identified with the Jesus of the earliest Christian documents ).

" However, Wells insists that this line of first-century traditions is separate from the sacrificial Christ myth of Paul's epistles and other early documents, and that these two traditions have different origins.

Based on the existing historical texts and the archaeological iconographic materials discovered since the 1980's, particularly the first-century Buddhist manuscripts recently found in Afghanistan, the commentator believes that the most plausible theory is that Buddhism started from the Greater Yuezhi of northwest India ( present-day Afghanistan and Pakistan ) and took the land roads to reach Han China.

The earliest recorded mention of using resin with wine amphorae is by the first-century Roman writer Columella, who detailed in his work De Re Rustica ( 12, 20, 3 and 12, 22, 2 ) the different type of resin that could be used to seal a container or be mixed into the wine.

This first-century construction is currently under consideration for inscription as a UNESCO World Heritage site.

The first reference to a vending machine is in the work of Hero of Alexandria, a first-century engineer and mathematician.

The first-century Jewish historian Josephus is considered the most reliable literary source for Caiaphas.

: If something stands in the gospels that is clearly not in the interests of the late first-century church — disparaging remarks about Gentiles, for example, or explicit pronouncements about the imminent end of the world — then it has a stronger claim to authenticity than otherwise.

The first mention is in the work Zhou Li of the late Zhou dynasty, and the six types are listed in the Hanshu of the first century CE, and in Zheng Zhong ( 鄭眾 ) quoted by Zheng Xuan ( 鄭玄 ) in his first-century commentary of Zhou Li, although the details vary.

However, the intended effect is more clear if one considers it within the context of the epic poem De Rerum Natura ( On the Nature of Things ) by first-century B. C.

Thus, the " new perspective " is an attempt to lift Paul's letters out of the Lutheran / Reformed framework and interpret them based on what is said to be an understanding of first-century Judaism, taken on its own terms.

Meron is most famous for the tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai, a first-century rabbi, who contributed greatly to the Mishna, is often quoted in the Talmud, and to whom is attributed authorship of the kabbalistic book of Zohar.

For a first-century Jew, however, the Temple had an enormous significance ; as a result, when Paul uses such an image within twenty-five years of the Crucifixion ( with the actual temple still standing ), it is a striking index of the immense change that has taken place in his thought.

In serious, visually literate contexts, the presence of bucrania always signifies that the Doric order is the organizing principle, but in a first-century fresco from Boscoreale, protected by the eruption of Vesuvius and now at the Metropolitan Museum, bucrania and cistae mysticae hang on ribbons from pegs that support garlands, evoking joyous fasti.

Citing the possibly first-century Didache and the Letter of Barnabas of about the same period, the Epistle to Diognetus and Tertullian, the Catholic Church declares that " since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion.

Similarly, the first-century Roman Imperial cult began by venerating the genius or numen of Augustus, a distinction that blurred in time.

The first-century Jewish historian Josephus gives a slightly different account in his Antiquities of the Jews.

Muir's father read Josephus's War of the Jews to understand the culture of first-century Palestine, as it was written by an eyewitness, and illuminated the culture during the period of the New Testament.

It was unusual for a woman in first-century Judaism to be accepted by a teacher as a disciple.

Timothy ( Greek: ; Timótheos, meaning " honouring God " or " honored by God ") was a first-century Christian bishop who died around the year 97 AD.

A fermented fish sauce called garum was a staple of Greco-Roman cuisine and of the Mediterranean economy of the Roman Empire, as the first-century encyclopaedist Pliny the Elder writes in Historia Naturalis and the fourth / fifth-century connoisseur Apicius relates in his collection of recipes.

The first-century historian Flavius Josephus was so impressed by the area that he wrote, " One may call this place the ambition of Nature.

His talents as an orator and rhetorician were greatly admired by his contemporaries, a number of whom were later regarded as forming a school called after him Frontoniani ; his object in his teaching was to inculcate the exact use of the Latin language in place of the artificialities of such first-century authors as Seneca, and encourage the use of " unlooked-for and unexpected words ", to be found by diligent reading of pre-Ciceronian authors.

In Christianity, some interpretations of Biblical teachings conclude that although tithing was practiced extensively in the Old Testament, it was never practiced or taught within the first-century Church.

Flavius Josephus, the first-century Jewish historian, writes that " he sacrificed his daughter as a burnt offering: offering such an oblation as was neither conformable to the law, nor acceptable to God ; not weighing with himself what opinion the hearers would have of such a practice.

The goal was to let the reader hear the message as a first-century listener might have.

: The Hebrew name for ' Jesus ,' derived from ' Joshua ,' was common in first-century Palestinian Judaism, so ' Jesus of Nazareth ' specified which Jesus, and Acts references the early Palestinian Christians as followers ' of the Nazarene ' and ' the sect of the Nazarenes.

With the rediscovery of the text in first-century Rome ( the play was adapted by the tragedians Ennius, Lucius Accius, Ovid, Seneca the Younger and Hosidius Geta, among others ), again in 16th-century Europe, and in the light of 20th century modern literary criticism, Medea has provoked differing reactions from differing critics and writers who have sought to interpret the reactions of their societies in the light of past generic assumptions ; bringing a fresh interpretation to its universal themes of revenge and justice in an unjust society.

A first-century CE epic of Tamil literature called Cilappatikaram (" The story of the anklet ") dealt with a woman whose husband was killed while trying to sell one of her anklets to a dishonest goldsmith.

This Psalm survived in the Syriac Peshitta and also was found in Hebrew, in the Dead Sea scroll 11QPs ( a ) 154 ( said also 11Q5 ), a first-century CE manuscript.

This psalm extant in Syriac and also was found in the Dead Sea scroll 11QPs ( a ) 155 ( said also 11Q5 ), a first-century CE Hebrew manuscript.

AA sprang from The Oxford Group, a non-denominational movement modeled after first-century Christianity.

Building on the example of Jesus and Paul, first-century Christians placed less value on the family, and rather saw celibacy and freedom from family ties as a preferable state.

Another popular ancient version from the Syriac tradition replaced Helena with a fictitious first-century empress named Protonike.

As a consequence, to a significant degree first-century Christians placed less value on the family and saw celibacy ( not marrying ) and freedom from family ties as a preferable state.

Bultmann thus understood the project of " demythologizing the New Testament proclamation " as an evangelical task, clarifying the kerygma, or gospel proclamation, by stripping it of elements of the first-century " mythical world picture " that had potential to alienate modern people from Christian faith: