摘要：The essay represents the author's inaugural lecture held on 7 December 2001 as a professor at the Department of the Study of Religion. The essay is partly a summary of the author's recently published monograph En religion bliver til , partly an elaboration of one of the main theses of the book. The development of early Christianity is closely related to a need for interpretation. Looking at 1 Cor 1:18-25; Rom 11:25-27; Matt 13:9-17; Mark 8:14-12 and Luke 24:13-32 Bilde attempts to find tracks in the early Jesus-texts that indicate the efforts of the Jesus-movement to understand and interpret Jesus, his message, fate and importance.
