The Rise and Fall of the Jesus Movement

In the first century many Jews were apocalyptic Jews fueled by millenarian fervor believed that the righteous would be would rise at or before the end times and it seems that the Jesus movement had this ready made millenarian framework in mind through which they could spread. Even expectations of resurrection within the century Judaism were not unprecedented or unique to the Jesus movement so as a kind of singular cause as to why the Jesus movement might spread and survive I don't think this would have been enough in the first century. The broader socio economic factors that were all entangled with these religious factors that help the movement to spread are important too.